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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.

Aaron Levie

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
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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Dad Education Mom Pretty Serious Teacher
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
That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Attempt First Mean Tried Wrong
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
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Incumbent IT Organisation Organization Relationship Winning World
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
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
If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
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Building Company Enterprise Magical Software Time
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
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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Come Easier Last Startup Winning Worry
When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
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Bug Feature Passionate Something Stress
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
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
The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
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Constant Disruption Out Starting 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
Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Entrepreneur Fighting Relevance Survival

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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