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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
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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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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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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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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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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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The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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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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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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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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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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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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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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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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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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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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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 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 people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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