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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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