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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Stress
Passionate
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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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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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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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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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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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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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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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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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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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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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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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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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