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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Software
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Customized
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Platforms

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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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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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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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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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When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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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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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
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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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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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