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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
Bugs
Stress
Passionate
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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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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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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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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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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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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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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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They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
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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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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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Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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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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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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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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