Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
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Foreword by Bill Gates
LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.
What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?
The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion as quickly as possible.
When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company's life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more.
Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.
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Reviews for Blitzscaling
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wise advice and insight from Reid Hoffman about how to lighting fast scale, what it takes and when it matters. As well as when it can hurt the company.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really liked it. Every founder should read/listen to it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good book with some solid advice for entrepreneurs everywhere. The disclaimer being it's not for all companies, all sizes and it's not generic advice. The advice applies selectively to some companies, it's contradictory in some cases, rightfully so as each company should invest time in following the right kind of strategy for their situation.
Some critique: In the case of China and their eco-system, the authors seem a bit condescending and overlook the fact the real competition and threat, they seem to think silicon valley will reign supreme - reminiscent of the behavior of organizations who miss signals of disruption. I think that the same comment applies to Indian eco-system however, China has a head start so their competition is much more real and closer to challenging the SV hegemony. Some of the books finer points try to white-wash history by now adding reason to an action, which may have been totally random and wrong too.
In conclusion: The advice as warned will be contradictory, it should be used as inspiration and selectively as principles. I think the structure and management aspects for such setup needs more articulation.
Overall a good read with inspirational stories.1 person found this helpful