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“Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.”

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The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people

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You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

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You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

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Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that…

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If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

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The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters…

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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one…

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Learn early, learn often.

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One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place…

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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are…

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Dropbox is my life.

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