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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
Talk
Often
Interrupt
Loud
Meetings
Faults
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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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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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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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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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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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 a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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