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Brian Balfour is recognized as a growth expert. He has started and grown multiple VC-backed companies with millions of users and is the former VP of Growth at HubSpot. Brian runs a terrific blog discussing the latest growth strategies and techniques (http://www.coelevate.com) and leads masterclasses on the topic at http://www.reforge.com
Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Mark Fishman
@markfishman
Think of your startup community as a lean startup—one that needs to try lots of experiments, measure the results, and pivot when things aren’t working.
Brad Feld • Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
EXECUTION + FORCES OF COMMUNITY + LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY
Scott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
Having seen this example, Palantir partnered with a secondary fund to offer liquidity to its employees so that they would never trip the five-hundred-plus owner barrier.
Alex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Bezos wanted all of his employees to be high-IQ brainiacs.