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Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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