Episode · a16z Podcast · 2023-05-25
Books mentioned on The Rise of the Exponential Organization
Many companies today are grappling with a few things: an economic downturn, potential layoffs and restructuring, and trying to keep up with the latest tech trends… all while still maintaining a growth trajectory.
Erik Torenberg discussed Exponential Organizations 2.0 by Salim Ismail and others. Also mentioned: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Exponential Organizations 2.0
Discussed“but here we are in 2023 and both of you felt the need to come back and say you know what we want to discuss exponential organizations 2.0”
Where to get it
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The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is a foundational business guide that advocates for validated learning, rapid experimentation, and minimum viable products to help entrepreneurs build successful companies without wasting time or resources.
Discussed“and we think of experimentation as having kind of two pieces one is like The Lean Startup constantly testing assumptions and running them and also inculcating a culture of taking risk”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Exponential Organizations 2.0
“those two guests are Peter D Mendes and Saleem Ismail co-authors of exponential organizations and coming very soon exponential organizations 2.0”
Plugged Exponential Organizations 2.0
“our new book is coming out and it's basically going to be available for free it's called exponential organizations 2.0 we're going to be doing a three hour workshop on June the 6th and it's a free Workshop”
Plugged Bold
“one of the concepts we talk about that I was in an earlier book I wrote called bold how to go big create wealth and impact the world the six D's of exponentials”
Passing Exponential Organizations 2.0
“you guys wrote this book originally in 2014 right and maybe we could just close out with one question”