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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
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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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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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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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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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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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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I don't use many apps. I use naps.
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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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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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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
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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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We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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