Blitzscaling
2018 • 288 pages
Ratings10
Average rating4.1
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Ratings10
Average rating4.1
What entrepreneur or founder doesnt aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups 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.
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More polemic than I was expecting with a lot of rehash, there was still some good content about 2/3 of the way through for a chapter or two. Despite a lot of it being generic, those sections were good enough to get it a 4 (but may be easier to just read an article or two).
Hoffman‘s podcast is very good and is pretty much in line with what this book contain. Do you have to keep in mind that Huffman is a big venture capitalist now. So the book does feel like it's from that perspective. There's also a strong bias towards tech companies in the book that I don't think totally apply to all business structures. However there are very good lessons to take away from the book on scaling your business.
