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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.

Aaron Levie

The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Building Enterprise IT Lead Model
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
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
If you don’t go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
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Company Distance Level Marketplace People
We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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Building Custom Platform Standard World
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
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
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Assumption Best Done Start Way
We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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Build Company Concept Enamore Goal Great Sometimes
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
It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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Biological Sleep Unfortunate
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.
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Energy Focus IBM Microsoft Oracle Thinking World
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 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Amazing Industry Moving Slow Software Stodgiest
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

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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