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Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Economically
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Incumbents
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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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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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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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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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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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Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
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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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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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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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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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Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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