Aaron Levie Quotes

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'