Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie
Aaron Winsor Levieis an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 December 1985
CountryUnited States of America
done littles too-much
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.
technology significant-change raw-materials
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.
years use definitions
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
building software enterprise
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
technology benefits kind
The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
organization answers customers
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
naps use apps
I don't use many apps. I use naps.
technology enough standing-out
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
world building platforms
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
building enterprise models
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
thinking focus needs
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
across dynamic market open products tend works
The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.
enterprise happening market software systems
If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
accidental attention best caring companies fight paying products quality stop survival technology time trying unless worse
It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.