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High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

What does it take to scale a startup from a few dozen employees to thousands without losing control?

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Author
Elad Gil

Why read it

  • You will stop treating vacations as work time, since the author warns that never unplugging can only lead to burnout
  • You will know how to choose an independent board member, a hire that is hard to undo
  • You will be able to interview product managers on their real contributions, not the success of the product they sat near

Who it is for

  • A startup founder whose company is about to grow fast
  • A new CEO learning to delegate and protect their time
  • An executive hiring a first head of product or recruiting

Contents

  1. INTERVIEWS WITH
  2. A NOTE TO READERS
  3. How to use this book
  4. A MESSAGE FROM ELAD
  5. Welome to the High Growth Handbook
  6. WHERE TO GO AFTER PRODUCT/MARKET FIT
  7. An interview with Marc Andreessen
  8. CHAPTER 1
  9. The role of the CEO
  10. DECISION-MAKING AND MANAGING EXECUTIVES
  11. An interview with Claire Hughes Johnson
  12. INSIGHTS
  13. Working with Claire: an unauthorized guide
  14. CHAPTER 2
  15. Managing the board
  16. BOARD AND CEO TRANSITIONS AND OTHER KEY GOVERNANCE ISSUES
  17. An interview with Reid Hoffman
  18. PART 1: MANAGING YOUR BOARD
  19. An interview with Naval Ravikant
  20. CHAPTER 3
  21. Recruiting, hiring, and managing talent
  22. CEO GROWING PAINS
  23. An interview with Sam Altman
  24. CHAPTER 4
  25. Building the executive team
  26. PART 1: HIRING, MANAGING, AND FIRING EXECUTIVES
  27. An interview with Keith Rabois
  28. HIRING A COO
  29. An interview with Aaron Levie
  30. SCALING IS MORE THAN A NUMBERS GAME
  31. An interview with Mariam Naficy
  32. CHAPTER 5
  33. Organizational structure and hypergrowth
  34. BRINGING IN THE WOLF: BAND-AIDS AND EXECUTIVE GAP-FILLERS
  35. An interview with Ruchi Sanghvi
  36. YOU CAN’T DELEGATE CULTURE
  37. An interview with Patrick Collison
  38. DIVERSITY IS NOT A NICE-TO-HAVE
  39. An interview with Joelle Emerson
  40. CHAPTER 6
  41. Marketing and PR
  42. BUILDING A MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS ORG THAT CAN WEATHER THE STORM
  43. An interview with Shannon Stubo Brayton
  44. HOW TO BUILD THE PR TEAM YOU REALLY NEED
  45. An interview with Erin Fors
  46. CHAPTER 7
  47. Product management
  48. CHAPTER 8
  49. Financing and valuation
  50. PART 2: GOING PUBLIC—WHY DO AN IPO?
  51. An interview with Keith Rabois
  52. PART 2: HACKING LATE-STAGE FUNDING
  53. An interview with Naval Ravikant
  54. CHAPTER 9
  55. Mergers & acquisitions
  56. SCALING RESPONSIBLY, FOR YOUR USERS AND THE WORLD
  57. An interview with Hemant Taneja
  58. APPENDIX
  59. Things to just say no to

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