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▶ 7:27 · $BOX · Levie: Concentrated bet on application layer via Box
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Sequoia Capital

Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion

2026-09-15 · 6 company · 0 thematic
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aaron levie

Aaron Levie founded Box in 2005, dropped out of USC, pivoted to enterprise; now serves 120k customers at $1-2B revenue run rate; active angel investor in AI applications, cybersecurity, and coding agents.

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“I'm pretty long obviously the application layer like I'm also equally very biased like I'm I'm I have a very concentrated bet u with very limited diversification on uh on it working out”
—aaron levie
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