Blitzscaling: Abstractions are powerful

I am taking CS183C (Technology enabled Blitzscaling) this quarter at Stanford. Prompt for this week: Write about how the principles of blitzscaling change as you achieve real scale (e.g. Village, City). Focus on things which: a) resonated the most with you and…

How to Kill a Baby Unicorn

There are ways to fail at being a 450 person company… there are a lot of failures at this point… so when you look at the current giants they’re not just there because “oh I got the right app and I had the right product market fit and now I just hang on to it and I just do what any…

Founder’s transition to a Leader

The transition of a startup from the “tribe” to “village/city” stage creates an imminent need for the founder to grow into the role of a leader. This essay focuses on all aspects of this transition that I find intriguing and how they relate to the principles of…

Why Vision is Everything

We’ve heard several stories from people who spent many years working at one company — as a founder, executive or…