Blitzscaling
By Chris Yeh & Reid Hoffman
The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. Currency, 2018.
Summary of Blitzscaling book by Chris Yeh & Reid Hoffman
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.
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What do you get from this book? Learn from two insiders how groundbreaking companies have achieved unprecedented growth
Blitzscaling describes the unprecedented business growth of the past few decades and explains how it happened
Disruptive hypergrowth depends on taking advantage of opportunities and creating sustainable positive feedback loops
Scaling your business quickly means constantly taking risks, with the ever-present danger of losing control
Maximum success means capturing the biggest market and creating many distribution channels
Blitzscaling companies take advantage of networks and develop high gross margins
Along with growth come limiting factors which threaten to disrupt the blitzscaling process
Scaling up quickly requires continual innovation in key areas like management and strategy
Massive, profitable blitzscaled companies have seven patterns in common which lead to success
It’s not just companies that can blitzscale – it is ideal for political campaigns and charities as well
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Who should read Blitzscaling book
- Entrepreneurs
- business students
- anyone interested in technology and the future
- market analysts
About the author of Blitzscaling
Chris Yeh
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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