127 Quotes by Aaron Levie


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    When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

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

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

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    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.

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    Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

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    Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

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    You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.

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    You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

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