Quote

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

Aaron Levie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Time
Onto
People
Definitely
Building
Small
Call
Start
Simple
Expand
Something
Toys

More quotes by Aaron Levie

Image
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
Aaron Levie
Image
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
Aaron Levie
Image
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie
Image
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
Aaron Levie
Image
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
Aaron Levie
Image
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Aaron Levie
Image
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.
Aaron Levie
Image
The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
Aaron Levie