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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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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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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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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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