Aaron Levie

Current Company

Box — Co-Founder & CEO

The College Dropout Who Built Enterprise Cloud

Aaron Levie co-founded Box in 2005 while attending the University of Southern California, eventually dropping out to pursue the company full-time. Aaron Levie saw early that businesses would need a secure, cloud-based way to store, share, and collaborate on content — a bet he made years before cloud computing became mainstream. He launched Box from a garage with his co-founder Dylan Smith, building the company into one of the foundational enterprise cloud platforms.

Aaron Levie took Box public in 2015 and has led the company as CEO ever since, navigating the shift from cloud storage to intelligent content management. Under Aaron Levie's leadership, Box has evolved into a platform that integrates with over 1,500 apps and serves more than 100,000 businesses. Aaron Levie is known in the tech industry for his prolific presence on social media and his ability to explain complex enterprise software concepts with clarity and humor.

Leading Through the AI Transformation

Aaron Levie has positioned Box at the forefront of the enterprise AI wave, arguing that AI's biggest impact will come from its ability to unlock value trapped in unstructured business content — documents, images, contracts, and data that companies already have but can't easily use. Under Aaron Levie's leadership, Box has built AI capabilities directly into its platform, including intelligent document processing and AI-powered search.

As one of the most vocal CEOs in enterprise software, Aaron Levie regularly publishes essays and commentary on how AI is reshaping the way businesses work. Aaron Levie's ability to see platform shifts early — first with cloud, now with AI — and adapt Box's strategy accordingly has been the defining characteristic of his nearly two-decade tenure as CEO.