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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Always
Never
Guarantee
Guarantees
Failure
Almost
Knowing
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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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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Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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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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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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