Summary of Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook

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Get the Summary of Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth, tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies to global enterprises.

Across all of these breakout companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: the role of the CEO, managing a board

recruiting and managing an executive team, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, late-stage funding

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638152477

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High Growth Handbook

Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People

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Elad 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.

Fast-growing startups have unique needs. 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. 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. For example, many companies have faced massive human resources problems in the high growth stage. Had these organizations taken HR more seriously early on, they probably could have avoided some very public, growth-inhibiting disasters.

Setting up a startup for successful and frictionless growth is ultimately the responsibility of