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“The case studies you’re about to explore and the tools you’re about to gain have never been more relevant. Readers will learn how to design business models that support lightning-fast growth, navigate necessary shifts in strategy at each level of scale, and weather the management challenges that arise as their company grows. It prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, and allows a company to go from “startup” to “scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market.ĭrawing on their experiences scaling startups into billion-dollar businesses, Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh offer a framework for blitzscaling that can be adapted to nearly any region or industry. What is the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies?īlitzscaling is a specific set of practices for igniting and managing dizzying growth. By relying on his experience and on his network in the Silicon Valley, the author illustrates his analysis with numerous examples, often surprising, sometimes difficult to replicate, always useful to open up to new ways of considering company management.(One of Amazon’s top 20 Business and Leadership books of 2018) It then reviews what this entails in business management terms-with often-unorthodox practices. Chris is the co-author of the bestselling book Blitzscaling: The Lighting-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, which he wrote along with Reid Hoffman. It identifies the business model conditions that enable such a strategy.

The book first presents the logic behind the blitzscaling strategy-that is the development of the organization at a phenomenal pace to outpace competitors. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. This leads them to frequently adopt practices that diverge from commonly accepted precepts in sound business management: use of far from optimal solutions to resolve an issue rapidly rather than perfectly, giving up on managing up the crises as long as they don’t slow down the acquisition of new clients, etc.

Those bold enough to adopt it must break free from the confines of business school logic to. The commonality that characterizes them is their determination to make speed of growth their top priority. Blitzscaling is a growth strategy that prioritizes speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty. What enabled Airbnb to dominate, or even to revolutionize the tourism industry in less than 5 years? Or Facebook to reach one billion users 8 years after being created on a student’s computer in a Harvard dorm? Reid Hoffman, co-founder of PayPal and LinkedIn, consultant to start-ups, shares in this book the approaches devised by “ hypergrowth” champions.

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