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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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Washington
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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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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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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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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
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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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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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