Aaron Levie Quotes - Page 3

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• Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

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  Uber, Doe, World

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

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  Barriers, Entry, Products

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

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  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Way, Sometimes

  Twitter post from May 25, 2013

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• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

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  Running, Real, Party

  "This 26-Year Old Founder Is Raising $100 Million To Take On Giants Like Microsoft". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. August 29, 2011.

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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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  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

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  Mean, Dna, Adoption

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• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

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  Thinking, Iphone, Ecosystems

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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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  Educational, Technology, Trying

  "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions with Box CEO Aaron Levie". Interview with Sarah Mitroff, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

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  Innovation, Stubborn, Favors

  Twitter post from May 25, 2014

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• Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

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  Trends, Way, Implementation

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2013

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• Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

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  Technology, Building, Platforms

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, Adversity, Technology

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• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

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  Weekend, Night, Play

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• The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.

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  Building, Enterprise, Models

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• Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

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  Retail, Internet, Newspapers

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2014

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• Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

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  World, Computer, Moments

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2013

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• 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.

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  Technology, Years, Enabling

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• We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

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  Building, Software, Enterprise

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• If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

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  Building, Software, Enterprise

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• The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

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  Technology, Benefits, Kind

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• The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.

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  Organization, Answers, Asks

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2011

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• In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

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  Winning, Organization, World

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• In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

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  Technology, Building, Software

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• 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.

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  Technology, Want, Way

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