Book

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil · growth.eladgil.com Free Advanced

Elad Gil's handbook for the stage after product-market fit, free to read online: hiring executives, managing a board, structuring the organisation and keeping the company together as it grows.

  • Read the chapter for the problem you have this quarter, not the whole book.
  • Use it to see what will break next before it does.
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The question it answers

  1. How do I scale a business?

Read with it

  1. The essay that put 'product-market fit' into the startup vocabulary. Read it for the gut-level description of what PMF feels... pmarchive.com Essay · ~15 min read The Only Thing That Matters Marc Andreessen
  2. The permission slip to recruit users by hand, do things manually, and deliver 'insanely great' experiences to your first few... paulgraham.com Essay · ~15 min read Do Things That Don't Scale Paul Graham
  3. Altman's condensed operating manual for founders, including sharp guidance on focus, spending your time on what only you can... playbook.samaltman.com Article · long Startup Playbook Sam Altman
  4. This is the essay that forces the honest question underneath your idea: are you building a growth company or a good small... Paul Graham Essay · ~20 min read Startup = Growth Paul Graham
  5. Molly Graham, who scaled teams at Facebook, on what changes for founders and early employees as a company grows: handing off... review.firstround.com Article · 15 min Give Away Your Legos and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups Molly Graham
  6. Reid Hoffman's case for prioritising speed over efficiency when a market is winner-takes-most, and the costs that choice brings. hbr.org Article · 15 min Blitzscaling Reid Hoffman
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