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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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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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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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