Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
AARON LEVIEThat’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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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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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.
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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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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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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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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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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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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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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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