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If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

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Aaron Levie
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 27
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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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