Covering key topics including the role of the CEO, managing your board, recruiting and managing an executive team, M&A, IPOs and late stage funding rounds, and interspersed with over a dozen 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. 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. 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. Elad has worked at several high growth companies and invested in others, and he has gathered a lot of wisdom from these different experiences.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. High Growth Handbook includes interviews with experienced entrepreneurs such as Marc Andreessen and Patrick Collison, whom Elad met with as he wrote the book.Įlad joins the show to discuss his book, and his own personal lessons of working with companies such as Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Coinbase. The CEO must balance psychological health with the stressful task of scaling a company.Įlad Gil is an entrepreneur and author of “High Growth Handbook”, a book of lessons and guidelines about how to navigate a startup that has found product market fit, and is beginning to scale. But these are good problems to have, and the company is in a state of exuberance.

The CEO of the high-growth company is up late into the night, answering emails and losing sleep. There is too much to do, and there is only so much time in a day. A rapid influx of new customers puts a strain on the engineering and customer service elements of the company. This requires raising capital, so the startup has to meet with investors and lawyers. The startup has to hire tens of new employees. When a startup finds product market fit, the adoption of that product can grow rapidly, turning a startup into a high growth company.Īll of a sudden, a startup that was struggling to find its first customer is bombarded with new challenges.

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