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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: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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