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Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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