Why Default AI Will Fail, and What Will Win Instead with Box CEO Aaron Levie

28/10/2025 48 min Episodio 3
Why Default AI Will Fail, and What Will Win Instead with Box CEO Aaron Levie

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Box Cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is transforming creativity, scale, and ambition inside organizations. Aaron shares how teams can turn data into a superpower, reinvent their ways of working, and unlock new opportunities to multiply their impact, all while keeping human creativity and judgment at the center. He also discusses how startups can now compete at scale from day one and how abundance thinking should shape what comes next.Cam’s notes on Substack: promptedwithcam.substack.com  Key Quotes“If you're in any creative role, the impact and leverage you have is truly 10 to a hundred times more than it was five or 10 years ago.”“A three or five person company now has the impact of a 50 person company.”“We should just start to think about this more as a technology for delivering abundance.”Timestamps00:40 — Welcome + Intro to Aaron Levie01:25 — The Prompt: Magic Camp and the spark of creativity05:41 — What “being human” means in the age of intelligent tools16:47 — Why intentional workflow design is essential17:37 — The rise of prompt-driven companies19:04 — Data is back: turning unstructured information into an advantage28:02 — Abundance thinking and removing long-standing bottlenecks28:31 — Creativity in every corner of the enterprise30:47 — Failing fast and building a culture of experimentation32:44 — Being more ambitious with what you ask AI to do36:14 — Starting Box today: how AI changes what’s possible40:05 — Differentiation and the importance of human spirit41:48 — All-star creative team picks42:56 — Magic Camp designer reveal44:44 — Rapid-fire questionsLinksSee Japes, Aaron and AI’s creative collaboration Subscribe to the Prompted NewsletterCam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/Aaron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxaaron/Aaron on X: https://x.com/levie Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.