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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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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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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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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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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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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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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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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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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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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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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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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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