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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
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Amazing
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Industry
Moving
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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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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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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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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In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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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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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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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 can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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