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.
AARON LEVIEBetter to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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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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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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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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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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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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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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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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