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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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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 there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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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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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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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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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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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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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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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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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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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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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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