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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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Aaron Levie
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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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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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?'
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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