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When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

Aaron Levie

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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Billion Doe Instead Optimize Uber World
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
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
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
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
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed – just in the last 5 years.
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Change Definition Enterprise Software Use Year
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying
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
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Adopt Benefits Customer Friction Kind Technology
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
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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Dad Education Mom Pretty Serious Teacher
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
Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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Building Incumbent Infeasible Technical Thing
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 barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Barrie Consistently Create Entry Great Product
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

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