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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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People
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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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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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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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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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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