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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: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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Passionate
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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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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 barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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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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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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Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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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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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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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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