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High Growth Handbook

Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
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High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is a comprehensive guide for navigating the challenges of scaling a start-up into a thriving business. The book draws on insights from successful entrepreneurs and business leaders, offering practical advice on key areas such as hiring, company culture, and mergers. It's an essential resource for anyone looking to accelerate their company's growth.
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If you are keen on scaling your startup and navigating complex growth challenges, this book might be just what you need. It provides invaluable insights, drawn from experienced industry leaders, into managing exponential growth effectively. Ideal for entrepreneurs and business executives aiming for sustainable success, it blends strategic advice with practical solutions to guide companies through critical phases of development.

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High Growth Handbook

Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook.

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High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global enterprises.

Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including:

  • The role of the CEO
  • Managing a board
  • Recruiting and overseeing an executive team
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Initial public offerings
  • Late-stage funding

Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

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High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is praised for providing practical and insightful advice on building and scaling companies, drawing from the author's rich experiences with leading firms like Google and Twitter. Readers appreciate the book's digestible format and its focus on real-world, actionable insights rather than generic management tips, making it a valuable resource for entrepreneurs navigating hypergrowth phases.

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ISBN: 9781732265103

Publisher: Stripe Matter Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 August 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Stripe Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 159.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 344

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About the Author

Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase, Checkr, Gusto, Instacart, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, and Wish. He is cofounder and chairman at Color Genomics. Gil was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, where he also ran product and operational teams. He joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, where he was co-founder and CEO. He spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting it up and running. He was involved with three acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps. Prior to Google, Gil had product management and market-seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has degrees in mathematics and biology from the University of California, San Diego. He lives in San Francisco.

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