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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.

Aaron Levie

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
We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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Building Custom Platform Standard World
You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
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Adoption Consumer DNA Easier Mean
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
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.
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Extend Organization Ownership Pride Thinking
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
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
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
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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Build Company Concept Enamore Goal Great Sometimes
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
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
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
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Computer Future Moment Screen World
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
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

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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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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