High Growth Handbook

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Elad Gil is an entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase, Checkr, Gusto, Instacart, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, and Wish. He is cofounder and chairman at Color Genomics. Gil was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, where he also ran product and operational teams. He joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, where he was cofounder and CEO. He spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting it up and running. He was involved with three acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps. Prior to Google, Gil had product management and market-seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has degrees in mathematics and biology from the University of California, San Diego. He lives in San Francisco.

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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

• Initial public offerings

• Late-stage funding.

Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

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DEDICATION 

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 

 INTRODUCTION 

   

 CHAPTER 1: THE ROLE OF THE CEO 

 CHAPTER 2: MANAGING THE BOARD 

 CHAPTER 3: RECRUITING, HIRING, AND MANAGING TALENT 

 CHAPTER 4: BUILDING THE EXECUTIVE TEAM 

 CHAPTER 5: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND HYPERGROWTH 

 CHAPTER 6: MARKETING AND PR 

 CHAPTER 7: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT 

 CHAPTER 8: FINANCING AND VALUATION 

 CHAPTER 9: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS 

   

 APPENDIX: THINGS TO JUST SAY NO TO