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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
Aaron Levie
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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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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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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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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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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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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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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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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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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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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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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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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