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What 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 Levie

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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Entrepreneur Execute Like Strategize Tomorrow
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
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 Company Enterprise Magical Software Time
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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Business Determined Organize Productive Two
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Amazing Industry Moving Slow Software Stodgiest
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Fast Fault Loud Meeting Talk
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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Dangerous Important Incredible People Politics Thinking
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
I 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.
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Achieve Cliche People Sight Thinking
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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Build Innovation Need People Problem Solve
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Incumbent IT Organisation Organization Relationship Winning World
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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Extend Organization Ownership Pride Thinking
The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Constant Disruption Out Starting Way

What 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.

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What 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.

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