High Growth Handbook

By Elad Gil

Categories: Business & Money

Entrepreneur and angel investor Elad Gil, who has worked with Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe and Square, distills the patterns he saw across these fast-growing companies into a playbook for scaling startups. It was published by Stripe Press in 2018. Gil covers the role of the CEO, managing a board, recruiting and overseeing executives, late-stage funding, mergers and acquisitions, and going public. The book includes interviews with leaders such as Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen and Aaron Levie.

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• Tim Ferriss: “Read a book called The High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil. Arguably one of the best certainly angel investors of the last few decades. His hit rate is absolutely insane.”
• Vinod Khosla: “I recommend reading!”
• Shane Parrish: “I loved this book, which is a collection of interviews and insights from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley like Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, Patrick Collison and more. They talk about the role of a CEO, managing a team, and most importantly growing a business.”