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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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Seattle
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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 want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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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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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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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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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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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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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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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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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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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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