Episode · a16z Podcast · 2018-07-20
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
with Elad Gil (@eladgil) and Chris Dixon (@cdixon) There's a lot of knowledge out there -- and networks of talent (especially in Silicon Valley) -- on what to do in the early stages of a company, going from 0 to 1, and even in going from 1 to 100... but what about beyond that?
Chris Dixon discussed High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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High Growth Handbook
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil is a comprehensive guide on scaling startups from ten to ten thousand employees.
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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged High Growth Handbook
“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.”
Passing Zero to One
“There's sort of famous books like Peter Thiel's book, which is from zero to one, kind of the early stages of a startup.”
Plugged High Growth Handbook
“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 High Growth Handbook
“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 High Growth Handbook
“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 High Growth Handbook
“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 High Growth Handbook
“Elod's the author of the new book High Growth Handbook.”