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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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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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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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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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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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