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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
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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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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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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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