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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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 don't use many apps. I use naps.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
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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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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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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 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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Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
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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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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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