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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
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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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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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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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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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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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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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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