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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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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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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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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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