Aaron Levie Quotes
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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.
You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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?'
Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.
If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
