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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
Loud
Meetings
Faults
Fast
Talk
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Interrupt

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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 dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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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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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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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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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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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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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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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 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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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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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