The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
AARON LEVIE
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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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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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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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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Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.
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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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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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It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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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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Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.
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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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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology… and you can build software then, around the user.
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