Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Levie - Page 2

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.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

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.

I don't use many apps. I use naps.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

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

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.

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

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

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.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

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.

They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.

All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.