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Aaron Levie

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
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
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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Building Custom Modularize Oppose Platform Technology
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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Bringing Building Lead Model Software Technology
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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Doe Mean Need People Product Sales
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
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
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
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
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
You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Adoption Consumer DNA Easier Mean
I’m obsessed with speed. I’m always asking myself, ‘Why can’t we do things faster? Why can’t it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?’
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Asking Brilliant Fast Obsessed Three
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
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

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