Aaron Levie Quotes

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

… 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”.

I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed.

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

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

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context, I like to mention Steve Jobs. While he had as much to do as anyone with the invention and development of apps, he NEVER was limited by the current technology - indeed, he typically transcended it and relied on his own considerable wits.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.