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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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Relevance
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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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 people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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