It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
AARON LEVIEOpportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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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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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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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.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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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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Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
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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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