Instead I focused on detailed tactics for how to scale recruiting or what specifically to look for in executives. I also avoided writing a 500 page book on a single concept. In the book, I steered away from the canned, generic, useless advice found in your average business book like “A players hire A players”. Justin Kan summarized it nicely on Twitter. Rather, you can flip to a specific section that may be relevant to something your company is grappling with, or read through all the interviews at once. The High Growth Handbook is not meant to be read end-to-end, although you can do that if you want (thanks mom!). I personally learned a lot from these discussions and am grateful for the time and perspectives these leading figures in technology and entrepreneurship provided. There are Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Patrick Collison, Joelle Emerson, Erin Fors, Reid Hoffman, Claire Hughes Johnson, Aaron Levie, Mariam Naficy, Keith Rabois, Naval Ravikant, Ruchi Sanghvi, Shannon Stubo Brayton, and Hemant Taneja.

My own frameworks, observations, and tactical advice reflected in the book are complemented by interviews with some of the leading operators and investors in tech. The book covers topics like the role of the CEO, hiring and managing an executive team, doing re-orgs, managing your board of directors, buying other companies, raising late stage rounds, and the development of new functional areas like product management, marketing, and PR. The High Growth Handbook is based on my experiences working with companies post product-market fit as they scaled from a handful of engineers, and maybe a business person or designer, to multi-hundred or multi-thousand person organizations.

And by “love” I mean “I love that this was easier than launching a startup. The High Growth Handbook is a labor of love. An Audible book will be live within a week or so. Had these organizations taken HR more seriously early on, they probably could have avoided some very public, growth-inhibiting disasters.After two years of hard work the High Growth Handbook is now available for sale on Amazon, Kindle, and Kobo. For example, many companies have faced massive human resources problems in the high growth stage. If a CEO fails to address certain problems at this crucial stage, addressing them later, when the company is larger, will be vastly more difficult. This is because they are moving from a period during which everything runs on the founders’ personal efforts to one based on systems and protocols. Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 PeopleĮlad Gil’s High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People (2018) is a reference guide for founders and executives of fast-growing new technology businesses that draws advice from some of the leading minds in Silicon Valley.įast-growing startups have unique needs.

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