I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven. Aaron Levie Read Quote
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. Aaron Levie Read Quote
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee. Aaron Levie Read Quote
If you’re in your early 20s and you’re hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real ‘workers’ run into every day. They’re running into a completely different set of problems like ‘What’s the party going on right now that I should be going to?’ Aaron Levie Read Quote
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. Aaron Levie Read Quote
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. Aaron Levie Read Quote
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. Aaron Levie Read Quote
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. Aaron Levie Read Quote
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don’t have time for nonwork stuff. Aaron Levie Read Quote
I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me. Aaron Levie Read Quote