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.
trying too-late late
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
building software enterprise
We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.
people innovation needs
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
long focus today
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.