Aaron Levie Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Aaron Levie on Wise Famous Quotes.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.
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 latter.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology ... and you can build software then, around the user.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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.
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
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.
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
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.
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.
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
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.
Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.