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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: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
People
Barely
Built
Tomorrow
Opportunity
Lives
Today
Need
Intersection
Needs
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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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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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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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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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