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.
Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie
Startups live at the
Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
Aaron Levie
All we’re really doing
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.
Aaron Levie
In a user lead
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology… and you can build software then, around the user.
Aaron Levie
They can bring the
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.
Aaron Levie
Any time where the
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.
Aaron Levie
I think bad politics
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
Aaron Levie
I tend to not
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
Aaron Levie
Steve Jobs is the
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He’ll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie
My co-founder Dylan Smith
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends’ parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
Aaron Levie