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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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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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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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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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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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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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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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 only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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