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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
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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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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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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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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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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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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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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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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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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