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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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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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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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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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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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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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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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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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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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