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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
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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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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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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'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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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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