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 LEVIEThere’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 LEVIEThe benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
AARON LEVIEJeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
AARON LEVIEStartups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
AARON LEVIEWe’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
AARON LEVIEIn an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
AARON LEVIEI’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 LEVIEStart with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
AARON LEVIEWhat happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
AARON LEVIEI think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
AARON LEVIEYou want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
AARON LEVIEUber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
AARON LEVIEEntrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
AARON LEVIEYou can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
AARON LEVIEWe’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
AARON LEVIEAll 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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