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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.

Aaron Levie

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
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
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
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Billion Doe Instead Optimize Uber World
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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Cause Done Percentage Stress Time
The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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Barrie Consistently Create Entry Great Product
You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices… because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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Company Cost Discover Fundamental Look Structure
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
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
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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Done Enable Look 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
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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Dangerous Important Incredible People Politics Thinking
If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Against Odd People Thinking Wrong
Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.
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Building Customer Future Lost Mind Working

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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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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