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 LEVIESometimes 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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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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The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what’s best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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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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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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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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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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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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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Listen to your customers, but don’t always build exactly what they’re telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
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