Olivia Nottebohm on platform strategy
From Future of Work with Dropbox COO Olivia Nottebohm (CXOTalk #671) · · CXOTalk
“We view ourselves as a platform, a Switzerland platform, in which our customers and our users can use different applications that they need to do their job but in a very, very seamless way. They're able to be on the Dropbox platform but they're popping into Zoom, they're using Slack, or they're using Atlassian – you name it, any one of those integrated partners that we have. But they're coming back and being at home in Dropbox.”
On , Olivia Nottebohm, Chief Operating Officer at BOX INC, spoke about platform strategy during Future of Work with Dropbox COO Olivia Nottebohm (CXOTalk #671) on CXOTalk.
About Olivia Nottebohm
Olivia Nottebohm, Chief Operating Officer at Box, stated in a November 2024 video that AI is evolving faster than any other technology she has seen, with progress measured in weeks rather than months or years. She emphasized that teams designing AI-powered offerings should focus on solving customer problems and ensuring solutions are future-proof. In a September 2021 interview while serving as COO of Dropbox, Nottebohm discussed the future of work, describing the company as a "Switzerland platform" that integrates with tools like Zoom and Slack. She noted that remote work led to a 20x increase in Zoom integrations on Dropbox and argued that distributed work offers opportunities to hire more diverse candidates. Nottebohm also stressed the importance of overcommunication in remote environments, setting goals for accountability, and being kind to oneself during periods of change.