High Growth Handbook

By Elad Gil,

Book cover of High Growth Handbook

Book description

High Growth Handbook is the playbook 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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked High Growth Handbook as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book features interviews with some of the superstars of Silicon Valley, including Sam Altman and Marc Andersson. They share insights on scaling a startup from 10 to 10,000 people. It fascinates me how a company can grow so fast it can break. There were some terrific insights on hiring and firing (hire slow, fire fast) and I appreciated what felt like very frank insights on what founders need to do during those critical early years. As a founder of a hybrid publishing company, Hembury Books, I soaked up every morsel of knowledge I could, while also wistfully realising that…