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
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.
technology building software
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
technology want way
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.
technology building disruption
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
technology opportunity today
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.
technology done enabling
Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
technology years enabling
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.
inspiration technology entertainment
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
meaningful adversity technology
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.
educational technology trying
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
technology building platforms
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
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.
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.
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.