by Elad Gil
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American entrepreneur, investor
American businessman
American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author
Recommended by 12 notable people, including Keith Rabois and Cleo Abram
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See customer reviews on Amazon →It reads like a compressed operating manual from a C-suite insider. The value is in its pattern-matching across hypergrowth companies—concrete advice on hiring executives, managing boards, and internationalization, often boiled down into bullet lists. The book wastes no words, which suits a time-pressed founder, but the absence of narrative or failure cases makes it feel more like a reference doc than a strong read. It’s most useful when you’re in a specific bind and need a fast, opinionated direction.
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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 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 in High 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…
Difficulty:hard
Length:326 pages (Medium)
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Recommended by 23 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Investors, Most Recommended Books, and Entrepreneurship.
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Consider Good to Great by Jim Collins. Recommended by 32 sources.
“The book walks you through a multi-year research project, contrasting spectacular performers with mere survivors. The core insight—that sustained greatness hinges on disciplined people, thought, and action—feels sturdy and actionable. But the book’s arguments rely on retrospective selection of companies, and some of its darlings later faltered. You’ll find a methodical, almost monastic tone that rewards patience but may irritate if you want contemporary, tech-savvy lessons.”
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