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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Catch
Early
Late
Better
Trying

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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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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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