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I don't use many apps. I use naps.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Many
Apps
Naps
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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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All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
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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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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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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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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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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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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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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
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