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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
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Small
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Intentionally
Enterprise

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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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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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If every customer is using your product correctly, you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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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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Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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 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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We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
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If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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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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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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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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