How to Lead at Hypergrowth Companies
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How to Lead at Hypergrowth Companies
starting in the late 1980s, with the explosion of the knowledge economy, people who were broader—who had worked across numerous technological domains—started making the biggest impacts. That's continuing today.
Alex Hickey • A Conversation With "Range" Author David Epstein
And with Escape Velocity, we see the emergence of the classic “Growth Team” that the big companies have. Escape Velocity, Goal: Scaling up growth across many efforts and channels, Roadmap: Multiple growth strategies — primarily 2 or 3 — that work in concert to grow the product to millions or tens of millions of users, Outcom... See more
Andrew Chen • What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen
In the second phase, the Tipping Point, usually the growth efforts to focus on a set expert skills to scale rather than explore. If you are working on a product in real estate that competes with Redfin, the expert skill is probably figuring out how to capture high-intent traffic — like SEO/SEM. If you are working on social apps, it’s probably viral... See more
Andrew Chen • What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen
The problem that Kevin Kelly and Scott Adams exemplify is: we have industrial notions of boundedness around skill sets. When you ask most people what they do, they fall into a fairly small number of buckets, most of which are classes at a University: I’m a marketer, I’m a designer, I’m a software engineer.
That’s typically how people describe their ... See more
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Taylor Pearson • 4 Ways to Find the Work Only You Can Do
But life is not a portfolio: not for a startup founder, and not for any individual. An entrepreneur cannot “diversify” herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well. Less obvious but just as important, an individual cannot diversify his own life by keeping dozens of equally possible caree
... See morePeter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
As the company grows and the organization scales, your role within the organization will change. It will become a lot narrower and more focused and this frustrates most early employees. But that doesn’t mean you’re having less impact, you are probably having a larger impact in a more focused area. So, you’re right, if you’re just heads down and do
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
- At the heart of every company there is a growth engine with a test/learn process. - When growth is in your títle you better be growing or you’re not doing your job right.
James Currier • The New Growth Mindset with Sean Ellis & James Currier
“The art of management,” Grove wrote, “lies in the capacity to select from the many activities of seemingly comparable significance the one or two or three that provide leverage well beyond the others and concentrate on them.”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
If you are your sole responsibility, this is the time to step outside of your comfort zone, to start or join an exciting, risky project; to drop everything else at the chance to be part of something really great. So what if it fails? You can always go back to school, take that job at an investment bank or a consulting company, move into a nicer apa
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