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
pride thinking organization
There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
thinking odds people
If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
thinking would-be kind
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
thinking people important
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.
thinking iphone ecosystems
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
thinking sight people
I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
encouragement thinking ideas
If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
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.
My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
winning organization world
In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
technology building software
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.