Aaron Levie Quotes

It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.

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.

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.

If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.