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Blitzscaling

By Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh

The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. Currency, 2018.

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13 Key insights

A brief summary of Blitzscaling

A case study-driven investigation of the emerging pattern of massive, uninhibited business growth, proposing a new concept to explain its emergence in a market that rewards the first, fastest, and largest companies.

Key insights in Blitzscaling

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What do you get from this book? Learn from two insiders how groundbreaking companies have achieved unprecedented growth
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Blitzscaling describes the unprecedented business growth of the past few decades and explains how it happened
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Disruptive hypergrowth depends on taking advantage of opportunities and creating sustainable positive feedback loops
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Scaling your business quickly means constantly taking risks, with the ever-present danger of losing control
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Maximum success means capturing the biggest market and creating many distribution channels
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Blitzscaling companies take advantage of networks and develop high gross margins
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Along with growth come limiting factors which threaten to disrupt the blitzscaling process
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Scaling up quickly requires continual innovation in key areas like management and strategy
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Massive, profitable blitzscaled companies have seven patterns in common which lead to success
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It’s not just companies that can blitzscale – it is ideal for political campaigns and charities as well
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Summary of the key insights
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Blitzscaling

Entrepreneurs • business students • investors • executives • anyone interested in technology and the future • market analysts

About the author of Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn, a venture capitalist partner at Greylock Partners, and was a board member in the early days of PayPal. Chris Yeh is an experienced internet startup founder and investor. Yeh and Hoffman have also written The Start-Up of You and The Alliance.

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