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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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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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 IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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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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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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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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