In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
Aaron LevieMy 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 LevieTip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Aaron LevieI think because of the iPhone and the fact that we now have a ubiquitous internet, our creativity in the startup space is 10 times different. Every single industry, every single market, is going to be technology-driven in some way. There's an infinite opportunity for startups because now you can go and solve problems that previously looked like they had nothing to do with technology.
Aaron Levie