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Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Aaron Levie

I’m obsessed with speed. I’m always asking myself, ‘Why can’t we do things faster? Why can’t it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?’
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Asking Brilliant Fast Obsessed Three
In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Building Enterprise Intention Small Want
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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Building Business Disruption Model Oriented Technology
If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Correct Customer Interest Interesting Next
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
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
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
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
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed – just in the last 5 years.
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Change Definition Enterprise Software Use Year
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
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
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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Always Chance Failure Guarantee Know Knowing
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
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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Crisis Existential Great Perfectly Startup
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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Change Jobs Latter Sometime Tried Way
I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.
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Annoy Driven Kind Thinking Would

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