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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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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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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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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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