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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: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Catch
Early
Late
Better
Trying

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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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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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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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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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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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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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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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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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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
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