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Aaron Levie

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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Begin Black Coffee Cup Hand Workday
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.
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Doe Mean Need People Product Sales
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
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
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
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Amazing Industry Moving Slow Software Stodgiest
That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Attempt First Mean Tried Wrong
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Catch Early Late Too Try Trying
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don’t have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
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Adopt Benefits Customer Friction Kind Technology
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
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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Cheerleader Coach Entrepreneur Player Waterboy
Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something.
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Definite Expand People Simple Toy
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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Achieve Cliche People Sight Thinking

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