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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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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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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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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
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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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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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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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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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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 best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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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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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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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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