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Aaron Levie

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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Annoy Driven Kind Thinking Would
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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Achieve Cliche People Sight Thinking
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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Always Chance Failure Guarantee Know Knowing
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
Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.
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Delta Opportunity Possible Technology Today Wide
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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Done Little Much Person Process
If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Correct Customer Interest Interesting Next
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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Close Enough Out Present Standing Technology
We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Building Company Enterprise Software Start
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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Build Innovation Need People Problem Solve
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
You’ll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
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Competition Customer Research Talking Watch Year
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
There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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Extend Organization Ownership Pride Thinking
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
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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Answer Ask Centric Customer Decide Organization

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