There’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.
AARON LEVIEJeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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I don’t use many apps. I use naps.
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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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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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Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.
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Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
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If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.
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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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