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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: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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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 IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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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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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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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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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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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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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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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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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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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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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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