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The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

Podcast: AI + a16z
Published: Apr 21, 2026
Duration seconds: 3577
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Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, and Martin Casado speak to Aaron Levie, CEO at Box, about what happens to enterprise software when agents become the primary users. They discuss why coding agents succeed where other knowledge work agents struggle, what abstraction layers mean for the workforce, and how data access and systems of record must change in an agent-first world.