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

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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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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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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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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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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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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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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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 think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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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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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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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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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 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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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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