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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
Aaron Levie
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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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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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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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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You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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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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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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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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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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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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