Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
AARON LEVIEThere’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.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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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 chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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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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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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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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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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The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
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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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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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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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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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