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However, once you hire your first seasoned exec who works out, you will be grateful for their presence. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has degrees in Mathematics and Biology from the University of California, San Diego.Hiring executives for the first time can be quite tricky for a founder. Prior to Google, Elad had product management and market-seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies. He was involved with three acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products.

Elad spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and was involved in all aspects of getting that team up and running. MixerLabs ran GeoAPI, one of the early developer-centric platform infrastructure products. Elad joined Twitter via the acquisition of MixerLabs, a company where he was co-founder and CEO. Previously, he was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, where he also ran various product (Geo, Search) and other operational teams (M&A and Corporate Development). He is cofounder and chairman at Color Genomics. 作者简介Įlad Gil is an entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase, Checkr, Gusto, Instacart, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, Wish, and others. In what Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 NYT bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You calls "a trenchant guide," High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook.Ĭovering key topics including the role of the CEO, managing your board, recruiting and managing an executive team, M&A, IPOs and late stage funding rounds, and interspersed with over a dozen interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups. Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands.