Quote

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

Aaron Levie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
Entrepreneur
Seattle
Washington
Doe
Need
Mean
Salespeople
Needs
Sell
Sells
Product
Products
Building

More quotes by Aaron Levie

Image
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
Aaron Levie
Image
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
Aaron Levie
Image
Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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
They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.
Aaron Levie
Image
The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
Aaron Levie
Image
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
Aaron Levie
Image
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.
Aaron Levie
Image
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
Aaron Levie
Image
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie
Image
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
Aaron Levie
Image
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
Aaron Levie
Image
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?'
Aaron Levie
Image
You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
Aaron Levie
Image
We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
Aaron Levie
Image
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
Aaron Levie
Image
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
Aaron Levie
Image
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
Aaron Levie