Book · 2018 · Business
High Growth Handbook
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It is an outstanding book. People should really check it out, especially if you're playing in the venture-backed game. What's the subtitle? The subtitle is scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people.
Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026 What they say about it
- Highly recommends the book“highly recommend reading”6
- Features a contributed chapter“wrote a whole chapter”3
The best things said about it
Is to read a book called the high growth handbook by Allad Gil E L A D G I L arguably the best one of the best certainly angel investors of the last few decades.
Tim Ferriss The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2026 Super angel alad gil is with us he wrote the amazing book high growth handbook go ahead and buy that right now pause the podcast go get the audio book go get the book buy both.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Feb 2021 I wrote a whole chapter in in a book that i highly recommend founders called high growth handbook published by eli gill the whole entire chapter is why to go public.
Keith Rabois This Week in Startups · Dec 2020 I explained my views at length in a chapter a full chapter on this topic in eli gill's high growth handbook which i highly recommend reading.
Keith Rabois This Week in Startups · Aug 2020 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is a comprehensive guide on scaling startups from ten to ten thousand employees. The book has received widespread praise across several prominent podcasts. Tim Ferriss recommended the book on The Tim Ferriss Show, describing it as an outstanding resource particularly valuable for those operating in the venture-backed startup ecosystem, and he noted its status as one of the definitive works by a leading angel investor. Sami Inkinen also endorsed the volume on the same podcast, categorizing it alongside other top-tier literature on high-output management. On This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis strongly urged listeners to immediately purchase both the print and audiobook editions, calling the author a super angel. Additionally, Keith Rabois frequently recommended the handbook on This Week in Startups, highlighting a specific chapter he authored that details his extensive views on why and when founders should take a company public. The podcast discussions collectively emphasize the text's practical utility for entrepreneurs navigating rapid corporate expansion, market-driven theses, and organizational scaling challenges.
Every mention
Keith Rabois i wrote a whole chapter in in a book that i highly recommend founders called high growth handbook published… 3
Recommended
“i wrote a whole chapter in in a book that i highly recommend founders called high growth handbook published by eli gill the whole entire chapter is why to go public”
Recommended
“i explained my views at length in a chapter a full chapter on this topic in eli gill's high growth handbook which i highly recommend reading”
Recommended
“in fact I have a chapter for those who really want to dig into this in either I kill over at a great book called the high growth handbook there's one chapter in a book that is a basically my views expressed at length so someone who's seriously consider going public should read the chapter verses like this a 30”
Tim Ferriss is to read a book called the high growth handbook by Allad Gil E L A D G I L arguably the best one of the b… 3
Discussed
“When did you write The High Growth Handbook? When was that published? It's a while ago now. It's probably like seven-ish years ago, something like that.”
Recommended
“Let's turn to the high growth handbook for a second. So that that was let's just call it seven-ish years ago. It is an outstanding book. People should really check it out, especially if you're playing in the venture-backed game. What's the subtitle? The subtitle is scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people.”
Recommended
“is to read a book called the high growth handbook by Allad Gil E L A D G I L arguably the best one of the best certainly angel investors of the last few decades”
Jason Calacanis super angel alad gil is with us he wrote the amazing book high growth handbook go ahead and buy that right… 2
Discussed
“and i should note that you're the author of the high growth handbook scaling startups from ten to ten thousand people july 2018 uh that's when you publish it right around the same time i published angel actually uh and uh you've gotten incredible feedback on that book”
Recommended
“super angel alad gil is with us he wrote the amazing book high growth handbook go ahead and buy that right now pause the podcast go get the audio book go get the book buy both”
Sami Inkinen and high upput management actually the high growth handbook by El Gilvitz is much much much newer and I kno… 1
Recommended
“and high upput management actually the high growth handbook by El Gilvitz is much much much newer and I know you've interviewed El professional setting”
Brie Wolfson this was for what became the first Stripe Press book, Elad's High Growth Handbook. 1
Discussed
“this was for what became the first Stripe Press book, Elad's High Growth Handbook.”
Chris Dixon So let's talk about in your book you talk about late stage financings. There's been a lot written and sort… 1
Discussed
“So let's talk about in your book you talk about late stage financings. There's been a lot written and sort of blogged and other things about early stage”
Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Any other books or resources for people outside of the High Growth Handbook who specifically want to learn about boards, recruiting, incentivizing the co-founders that you couldn't hire to join the board, etc., etc.”
Plugged
“I wrote a whole chapter in Eli Gill's you know high growth handbook on why call me should go public as early as possible”
Passing
“I brought brought your book uh from from my home into the office today you wrote high growth handbook you deal with a lot of late stage companies”
Passing
“My working-with-me document was published in Elad Gil's book, High Growth Handbook, and it went a little bit viral.”
Passing
“i knew i should have had you on when your book came out i'm such an idiot i apologize to you again”
Plugged
“Today's episode features Chris Dixon, now a general partner on a16z crypto, interviewing Elad Gil, the author of a new book just out called The High-Growth Handbook, Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 people.”
Plugged
“I mean, to your point, I think there's, you know, Peter Thiel's book is zero to one and really the hope is to have a book that's talking about when you go from 10 to 10,000.”
Plugged
“So, there's a few different sections of the book that talk about both executive hiring as well as managing your executive team and how do you go about it.”
Plugged
“I think in general, dealing with sort of what are called old-timers in the book is a key question because they've proven their loyalty to the company.”
Plugged
“Second, I think that there is generation of founders who haven't really made the transition mentally that often as a company scales you're moving from a product-centric organization to one that's both product and distribution centric. This is actually something that Mark Andreessen talks about a little bit in the book”
Plugged
“Elod's the author of the new book High Growth Handbook.”