High Growth Handbook
by Elad Gil
Gil's operating manual for scaling from 10 to 1,000 people: hiring executives, boards, M&A, late-stage financing, with interviews from Marc Andreessen to Claire Hughes Johnson. Dense, practical and the best reference for the growth stage.
Read it if…
your company is past product-market fit and everything is breaking.
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Skip it if…
you are pre-product-market fit.
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Three things you will actually use
- Your job changes every six months.
- Hire executives who have seen the next stage.
- Boards are a tool; use them.
Do this first
Read the chapters on hiring and managing executives.
Our verdict
The growth-stage manual.
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