Aaron Levie Quotes

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

… people who have built a business doing it the old way think it would be better if things could be more stable for longer periods of time. But you have to remember, new inventions are not inherently disruptive. Invention is only disruptive if customers say, “Hey, I like this better than the old way”.

In terms of building consumer products, the U.S. and China are ahead of India. The interesting opportunity for India is whenever there is a disruption in technology, it gives every country a chance to leapfrog and take a lead. To take an example, China is leaping ahead in growing the China electric vehicle ecosystem.

It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years.

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.