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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
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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 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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If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
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Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
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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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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
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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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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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