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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 Levie

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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Assumption Best Done Start Way
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Bare Build Need Opportunity People Tomorrow
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
Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
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Around Better Implementation Right Trend Way Wrong
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
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
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
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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Focus Long Term Today Tomorrow
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
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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Favor Innovation Problem Stubborn Tech
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
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.
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Business Determined Organize Productive Two
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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App Many Nap Use
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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Energy Focus IBM Microsoft Oracle Thinking World
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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Bridge Future Giant Leap Require Winning

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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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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