Blitzscaling

The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

By: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword

Narrated by: Chris Yeh, Reid Hoffman

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Foreword by Bill Gates

LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.

What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.

The objective of blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one but from one to one billion as quickly as possible. When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company's life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more.

Whether your business has 10 employees or 10,000, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.

©2018 Reid Hoffman and Chris Yen (P)2018 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“The book the start-up world has been waiting for. I can’t think of any other that so perfectly captures the specific challenges - and opportunities - that a company faces at every stage of growth. This book shares some of the key secrets for building mission-oriented, global businesses at speed." (Brian Chesky, cofounder and CEO, AirBnb)

“Blitzscaling shows how companies can build value for customers and shareholders in the digital age. A compelling inside view of how the new economy is being built and is transforming global business.” (Sheryl Sandberg, New York Times best-selling author of Lean In and Option B)

“The secret of Silicon Valley is that it keeps updating the playbook. Each new success - from Google to Facebook to Airbnb and Uber - develops new techniques for world-transforming products. Reid Hoffman paints the picture, with key case studies, of what it really takes to build a market-leading company. If you want to learn how to manage growth amid the controlled chaos that has become the new normal for startups and legacy businesses alike, read this book.” (Eric Schmidt, technical advisor and former CEO, Alphabet)

must read for entrepreneurs

this is a great resource to have insight into how some of the larger companies scaled out quickly on different product lines when to start and when to stop blitzscaling huge resource I would highly recommend getting this in your audible Library

Profound business book

I would recommend reading (or listening to) this book and anything else by Reid Hoffman that you can get your hands on. The advice is incredibly valuable to anyone trying to build their startup quickly - especially in highlighting when is the right time to pull the switch on for blitz scale-style growth strategies (hint: it’s not “always” or even “most of the time”). Reid is one of the great entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-advisers of our era, having either built or advised several of the most powerful companies in their respective areas (PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn, AirBnB, and all of the amazing Greylock successes).

mind changer

Nice book that allows you to start thinking on bigger opportunities for business, but also to undertand market changes and conditions. good and valueable themes for entrepeneurs and investors

Must read for any entrepreneur.

Excellent book, a must read for anyone that's working on a start up or looking to begin creating their own business.

Lots of good information!

I got lots of good ideas from this book. Highly recommend. I maybe requiring for my entire team.

Insightful

I really enjoyed the stories behind all those successful startups. It’s a great help to find similarities on the issues we’re going through in my own startup.

Becoming a category leader!

We won't all get the chance to work for a company's whose leaders are brave enough to blitzscale, but if you do, this book lays out the game plan. #modernworkplace

very good and motivational

if you are looking for ideas or mechanisms t drive growth in your company this is a good book to read. heavy on the silicon valley analogies but helpful just the same

Useful for every stage

If you'd like to learn a great deal of information within one book. It's highly recommended. It's more than just scaling.

another great book from the Paypal mafia

very insightful and interesting with lots of real world example.
highly recommended for startup entrepreneurs