Aaron Levie
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My First Million · I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch · 2 Jul 2026
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Those are the fun ones of, you know, the ones that were written in like, you know, 93.
And it was like, you know, Digital Equipment Corporation will be the largest company on the planet based on, you know, and it's like it died two years later.
I'm glad you asked because it does – I should, based on my confidence on the power of those six books, I should be able to tell you the answer.
They did not anticipate the AI market.
No idea who's going to win.
Well, partly because there's other factors here that Al Trite didn't write about.
So he didn't know whether China would win in open weights models.
No, I mean, there are literally other factors because we have government.
Like, government is such an X factor in this.
China is an X factor.
no idea on all these things um more what these books are good at is like it will it'll be if you're an entrepreneur it'll tell you if your idea is gonna be remotely you know gonna work or not um and so it it works better in kind of like early stage like like will this company find a category that it can like wedge into or will the incumbent more likely take the category like so i use
Innovative dilemma and innovative solution, as an example, will basically tell you 75% of the time whether you have a shot as a new startup.
Yeah, I mean, the whole point of Innovator's Dilemma was everybody kind of thinks it's like a tech disruption book.
It's like, oh, they got disrupted by a tech or something.
But it's too simplistic.
The key is what Innovator's Dilemma tells you is if the business model is not something that the incumbent wants to pursue, because the business model is unattractive to the incumbent.
So if you look at it through that lens, it will very quickly tell you, like, if you have a new startup, like, does the incumbent...
Is the incumbent going to find that business model unattractive or not?
And if it's unattractive, they won't pursue it.
And if it is, then you very much need to assume that that incumbent is going to try and compete with you.
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