Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
AARON LEVIEMy 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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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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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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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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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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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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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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If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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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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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’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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