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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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Seattle
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I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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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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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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If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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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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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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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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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 only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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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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