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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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 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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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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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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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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