Aaron Levie @levie Twitter profile

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Aaron Levie

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Totally normal and friendly robot, can’t imagine anything going wrong

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Elon Musk has decided he’d like to be the only human that can be called to congress for up to 63 different topics.

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Nintendo's mobile strategy: 2008: what's an iPhone 2010: what's an Android 2012: nope 2014: still no 2016: change how society functions

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Something is fishy about all these Biden picks. They all have relevant experience for the job and seem extremely impressive. 🤔

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And *this* is precisely why you can’t tax people on unrealized capital gains.

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Ok now we’re just playing with fire

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Iceland: 1, tech industry: 0

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Combined value of Tesla and SpaceX now over $500B. Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t transform earth and space travel at the same time.

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Obama: "Ok so then when a bill is passed by the House of Representatives it goes to the Senate..."

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1 year

One thing they don’t teach you in business school is that product pricing is often determined through live negotiations with Stephen King.

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@StephenKing We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?

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3 years

Snapchat is now worth $100B. Everyone thought Facebook would crush them when they turned down a $3B offer. Staying focused and ignoring the doubters is how you continue to compound value over the long run.

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2 years

The next time a politician wonders about the point of space exploration and innovation.

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Starlink — here. Thanks, @elonmusk

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7 years

Amazon's next innovation: Amazon House. You literally just live inside of their warehouse and get instant delivery.

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5 years

Almost everything I've learned about startups: * Aim to get to cash flow positive early * Don't overly optimize for private market valuations * Build a great team and culture * Make sure the business model *works* * Focus, focus, focus. Dilution of effort will crush you

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This is just sad 👇

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5 years

3 most stressful things about business: 1. Growth 2. Profit 3. Trying to switch between the Calendar app and Phone app fast enough to type in the conference call code before the woman’s voice tells you to start over again.

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3 years

Zuck really doing his part to make tech founders seem normal

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1 year

What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the issue with FTX was the normalization of trading fake assets that anyone can invent out of thin air with no regulation and that have no underlying value. Nope, can’t be it.

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5 years

I have no evidence that it’s possible to arrive at an airport anywhere other than the farthest gate out. I see people at other gates but at this point just assume they’re paid actors.

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ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.

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4 years

I feel like everyone knows that the first rule of being the richest man in the world is never get caught on video with robotic supervillain arms.

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1 year

The power of files, everyone

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3 years

20 years ago.

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6 years

That moment when you look at the price of bitcoin and think it can’t go any higher so you don’t buy any. Every day. For 4 years straight.

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1 year

Twitter cannot be the main story on Twitter every single day 😭.

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4 years

Zoom feature request exclusive to CEOs: the ability to enter any Zoom call in your organization at any time so you can disrupt meetings as you would normally when walking by conference rooms.

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5 years

To be fair, this works successfully when you’re talking to Michael Dell.

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Trump just called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple”

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3 years

Bitcoin is so 2020. GameStop is the new store of value.

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3 years

We’ve collectively learned nothing from sci-fi movies. This is definitely the moment we’re supposed to turn back.

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4 years

Friendly reminder to startups: customers don’t care about how brilliant your technology is. They only care about how simple your solution is. Focus on the latter at all costs.

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4 years

This is like a really bad zoom meeting.

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4 months

This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot.

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1 year

Apparently the best way to get rich in crypto is to be a bankruptcy attorney.

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3 years

2022 is definitely going to be our year

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5 years

In solidarity with @tim_cook I have changed my name.

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3 years

Bitcoin is now up about 10,000X since I started making fun of it. You win some you lose some 😀.

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3 years

Bitcoin conferences operate at a different level

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5 years

Anytime someone says “that problem has been solved,” remember Slack and Zoom have created ~$20B in value in categories most wrote off as finished.

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1 year

AI has officially replaced CEOs.

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5 years

As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too complex.

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9 months

It’s wild it’s considered a bad thing that small businesses should be able to find targeted customers for their products

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4 years

Just when you think we’ve invented everything important already

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2 years

South Park: 1, Tech Industry: 0

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4 years

There will never be an internet troll as effective as your own mom.

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2 years

The problem I wish Elizabeth Warren would solve is requiring hotels to all have the same lighting switch configuration. First 90 minutes of any trip is blown trying to figure this out.

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6 years

Stages of bringing new technology to market: 1. "Oh hell no." 2. "Politely, no, that technology would never work here." 4. "Neat, but not a priority for us." 5. "Maybe!" 6. "Actually nope, no budget." 7. "Well this is compelling." 8. "Where were you years ago?"

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2 years

Elon Musk right now

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1 year

AI for interface design. This is getting wild.

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4 years

Judging from his taxes, Trump has probably personally done more to defund the police than anyone else out there.

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5 years

I’ve read almost every book on startups, and somehow have just completely missed the chapters that covered this part of the strategy.

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5 years

WeWork's Adam Neumann set to receive a $1.7 billion deal to step down from its board, which will include a $185M “consulting fee” from SoftBank and $500M of credit from the investor - WSJ

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4 years

So like do Coinbase employees just pretend that debate didn’t happen tomorrow?

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Aaron Levie

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4 years

Apple is about to hit $1.8T market cap with only a few critical products. There’s an urge in startups to broaden your feature set way too soon. In most cases your market is far larger than you realize, and staying focused is far better than chasing more spaces.

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Aaron Levie

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6 years

The future of email is just receiving GDPR privacy notices until your inbox fills up and you no longer have the will to use email anymore.

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3 years

Airbnb to be valued at over $100B today. Here are 5 rejection emails they got when raising at a $1.5M valuation. Amazing:

7 Rejections

On June 26, 2008, our friend Michael Seibel introduced us to 7 prominent investors in Silicon Valley. We were attempting to raise $150,000…

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Aaron Levie

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6 years

Benioff now owns Time Magazine. Bezos owns the Washington Post. If anyone has a reasonably priced blog on Medium for sale, please reach out to me.

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4 years

Remote work starts out fun, then instantly turns into the hunger games once you and your spouse have conflicting video calls and only one "professional" space.

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4 years

I have a bitcoin joke, but I can’t use it anywhere

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I have a statistics joke, but it's not significant

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2 years

If you’re the richest person in the world and *not* doing hostile takeovers, what’s even the point

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3 years

The single biggest lesson I’ve learned in startups is focused persistence. When we were less than $1M in revenue it seemed daunting to scale. This year we’ll do $768M+. In between, we tried to avoid product distractions, focused on adding value for customers, and kept building.

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5 years

To anyone who has ever said AI isn’t ready to solve the world’s hardest problems...

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6 years

Kodak has launched KodakCoin and their stock is up 120%. Somewhere in the world there’s a strategy meeting right now to launch BlockbusterCoin.

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9 months

This is why we can’t have nice things

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6 years

Starting up is the act of doing as many jobs as possible so your company can survive. Scaling is the act of shedding as many jobs as possible so your company can survive.

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6 years

It’s disappointing knowing you’ll never be able to leverage one of your company’s rocket launches to put another one of your company’s products into orbit and generate massive free advertising.

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4 years

Wow. Facebook just bought Giphy for $400M. This is the first time something has felt remotely “normal” in the past 2 months. Thank you Facebook for bringing back that feeling.

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2 years

Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.

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4 years

Tesla is now valued at nearly 2X of all major US car makers and airlines combined. 🤯

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1 year

OpenAI was just like “hope you are cool redoing your entire 2023 plan in February” to every business in the world.

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2 years

My best startup advice: 1. Find an under-appreciated problem 2. Build the simplest way to solve it 3. Expand the market 4. Find the next adjacent problem 5. Repeat step 2-4 forever

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4 years

Way more startups have died by over-building for their market vs. under-building. Always start simple then expand.

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4 years

Zoom grew 355% YoY in Q2. There is literally no playbook for these kind of numbers at this scale. Unbelievable.

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4 years

Clever strategy to get teens into ERP systems while they’re young.

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Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s US business

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4 years

So my wife cut my hair today. I’ve never been yelled at so much by my own barber before.

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7 years

On every level -moral, humanitarian, economic, logical, etc.- this ban is wrong and is completely antithetical to the principles of America.

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3 years

Welp, there’s your ad for Tesla

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1 year

ChatGPT will likely play out exactly as innovator’s dilemma suggests. To an expert in any given field, it has worse answers. But most people don’t have access to experts for everything, so it actually is a productivity boost to everyone else.

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Speed is your single biggest advantage in tech. Everything about the world is slow and will grind you to a halt if you let it. This is why small teams, hyper aligned, with few constraints -whether in a big company or small startup- end up driving the biggest change.

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Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago.

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1 year

@elonmusk I think Twitter should focus on solving “bigger” problems, personally. This just isn’t one. Add more free features that make the product better for everyone, focus on advertisers and getting more b2b revenue. Most importantly, Twitter shouldn’t be the story on Twitter every day😃

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I know founders that work a ton because they love it. Some that don’t have to work a ton because their idea is so damn good. Some that work a ton because their business is operationally intensive. And some that worked long hours but the idea didn't work. There is *no* playbook.

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2 years

Figma is now $20B proof that if people say “that market has already been solved”, then they’re probably wrong.

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5 years

1. Solve *one* problem no one has paid attention to in a really big (potential or existing) market. Insanely well. 2. Then, “listen” to customers and address their next biggest problem related to that first problem. 3. Repeat until your startup is worth $1 Trillion.

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Hello, I’m a startup founder. You may know me from my greatest hits including, “we’ll figure out monetization later”, “we could be profitable tomorrow if we wanted”, and “we’re totally crushing it.” *hasn’t slept in days*

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2 years

Imagine having $130B and then still spending time day trading stocks.

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1 year

Need a Business Insider article on “How this 30 year old saved up $250 million to post bail”

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1 year

The lesson for the tech industry in the FTX saga should not be that people were “duped”. There was a company operating out of the Bahamas, running Super Bowl commercials, with like 12 engineers, that allows people to day trade fake things. It was all there.

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3 years

We’re not watching “censorship” we’re watching an open source, free market approach to safety measures on the web.

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4 years

In the digital economy, you hire where the talent is. When you restrict immigration, the jobs still get created, just somewhere else. And later down the road, when those individuals create the next Google, it won’t be here.

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2 years

Remember: customers rarely care about how novel your technology is, only what problems it solves for them. Never lose sight of that as a startup.

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7 months

This link title change makes Twitter far worse for its primary value prop of getting news quickly. Hope they undo it.

X stops showing headlines after Musk update demand

Musk said the changes were "coming from me directly" and they would "greatly improve" the site's aesthetics.

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3 years

The person who bought shares in GameStop for $3 in April last year, now trading at $120, is the world’s single greatest investor.

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4 years

Only in America is health advice more valid once a bank confirms it.

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Goldman Sachs says a national mask mandate could slash infections and save economy from a 5% hit

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Closing your first enterprise sales deal when you’re a startup.

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4 years

We’re now that country that the other countries look at and say wow at least we’re not that country.

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2 years

How about a political party that delivers and executes a pro business, pro immigration, pro choice, universal healthcare, universal childcare, and affordable education agenda?

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1 year

RIP inboxes

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1 year

If you’re not saying please and thank you in your ChatGPT conversations, then you’ve clearly never seen a sci-fi movie and good luck to you.

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4 years

We have profound racial injustice in our society. George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Enough is enough. @joelle_emerson and I are committing $500,000 to support organizations that are doing important work in this space. Let us know if you have any orgs to recommend.

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3 years

Shout out to all the PMs out there that just finished the Stories feature spec and now have to move onto the Clubhouse feature spec.

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5 years

Apple has cemented a turning point for the future of the web. In building products, the question is moving from “how much data can we gather” to “how little data can we gather” to deliver the same value proposition.

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