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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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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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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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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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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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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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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 think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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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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The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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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 there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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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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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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