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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.

Aaron Levie

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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Change Jobs Latter Sometime Tried Way
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival
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
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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Always Chance Failure Guarantee Know Knowing
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
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
Too little process and you can’t get good work done. Too much process and you can’t get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
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Done Little Much Person Process
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
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
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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Change Market Material Raw Significant Technology
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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Annoy Driven Kind Thinking Would
I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Certain Creation Involve People Prestige Simply
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
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup
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
Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Delta Opportunity Possible Technology Today Wide

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