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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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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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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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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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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 have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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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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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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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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