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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Need
Intersection
Needs
Intersections
People
Barely
Built
Tomorrow
Opportunity
Lives
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You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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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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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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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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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 want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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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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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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