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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Biologically
Unfortunate
Sleep

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You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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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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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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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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 only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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