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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Meetings
Faults
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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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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They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
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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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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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