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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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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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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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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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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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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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