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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Aaron Levie

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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Internet Newspaper Retail Store Wrong
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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Computer Future Moment Screen World
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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Begin Black Coffee Cup Hand Workday
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
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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Ago Done Enabling Repeat Technology Year
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
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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Done Enable Look Technology
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
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
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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Crazy Customer Ecosystem Reasonable
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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Entrepreneur Execute Like Strategize Tomorrow
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
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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Around Better Implementation Right Trend Way Wrong
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup

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