Useful but not super practical

Hearing about other's success is always motivating and there were a few good explanations about how companies managed to scale but the deep diving into methodologies used was missing. This felt more like a consistent introduction to blitzscaling rather than a step by step of how to implement.

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Great food for action and thought

Loved the book and the strategies discussed in it. It is inspiring and thought provoking for an entrepreneur based in a changing Europe/UK. I would love to have both authors on my board to help guide us through the next levels.

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Best book on scaling!!

Best book by far on scaling. Lots of valuable lessons. A must read for anyone looking to grow their business fast.

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The most unethical book I have ever read

Reid Hoffman's books is a bible of illegality. That he celebrates his technique as being the same as the Nazi's during the Blitzkrieg should set off enough alarm bells but the fact that throughout the book Hoffman encourages wholesale law breaking as an acceptable tactic to scale a company is just beyond words. In his own words, Hoffman does not consider laws to be relevant to the business world and shrugs them off as "little fires" that you can just leave burning because they are irrelevant.

Hoffman teaches these techniques at Stanford which goes a long way into explaining why the technology sector in Silicon Valley is so awash with illegal practices and frankly Stanford should be held to account for holding at least some responsibility for the emergence of illegal surveillance capitalism as a business model - a model which causes massive harm to human rights and society as a whole.

I recommend reading this book as an exercise in how not to create and scale a business and to give you some insights into the minds of these ruthless and criminal Silicon Valley execs.

Great book

Interesting and inspiring book with a lot of insights on blitzscaling and successfully expanding business operations internationally.

Not much content

Full of buzzwords and Not much meaningful content.
Perhaps a book for 10 years ago.

exceptional

- numerous strategic takeaways to lingering questions I've had

- reid and chris have interesting mental modals of the world

- academic style discourse makes for a substantial read on more philosophical topics

Envisioning

I found it to be very engaging and memorable.
I would probably listen to it again sometime in the future.

Great!

A perfect book if you're looking for inspiration and to think big! A compelling listen and fantastically well narrated.

Another book for the toolkit

Great book with great learnings. Move fast and break things, hyper growth at all costs and blitzscale all have their place.
Technology startups are by their very nature are cash burning machines that do not see profit for many years. So partner with investors that understand your space, the problem that you are addressing and that are prepared to go the distance.
Reid Hoffman is still ahead of his time and has had great exposure to ideas ahead of their time.