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 LEVIEWe’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
More Aaron Levie Quotes
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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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We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
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I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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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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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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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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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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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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If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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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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You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
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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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