Aaron Levie Quotes

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• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and…
• The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
• 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…
• You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
• The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
• 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.
• The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
• Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
• The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
• The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
• Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
• Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.
• Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
• 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.
• Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
• Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
• That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
• Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
• Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

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