High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People [Hardcover]

High Growth Handbookistheplaybook for growing your startup into a global brand.

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises.

Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified inHigh Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including:

• The role of the CEO
• Managing a board
• Recruiting and overseeing an executive team
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Initial public offerings
• Late-stage funding.

Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box),High Growth Handbookpresents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.CA“If you want the chance to turn your startup into the next Google or Twitter, then read this trenchant guide from someone who played key roles in the growth of these companies.”
—Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn andNew York TimesNo. 1 bestselling author

“Elad jam-packs every useful lesson about building and scaling companies into a single, digestible book. My only gripe is that he didn’t write this when we were in the early days of Box, as it would have saved my ass countless times.”
—Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box

“Elad eschews trite management aphorisms in favor of pragmatic and straight-shooting insights on complex topics, like manlÃU