Blitzscaling: The Lighting-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

BATB score 6.6/10 😴

Started out exceptionally strong on the basics to business and blitzscaling; unfortunately, things went downhill from Part III onwards…

Best to: Reid Hoffman is a legit business guru who writes well in conveying business concepts; from his latest 2021 work “Masters of Scale”, this oldie 2018 book proves that Hoffman does write better every year or so

Best for: business students as university course required read - a perfect mixture of principles, business jargons, case studies, legit concepts, and sleepy verbose blah blah

Best as: was going to recommend it as a venture capitalist, start-up entrepreneurial book club monthly read; sadly, though pages 1-120 were good stuff 🤩, pages 121-300 were huge meh bleh 😒

Best quotes: “you need new people with new skills as you grow.”

“Grow fast or die slow.”

“If your playbook is the same as your competitor’s, you are in trouble, because chances are they are just going to run your playbook with a lot more resources.”

“A good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution.”

“Do everything by hand until it’s too painful, then automate it.”

“There are no job descriptions for founders. If the role doesn’t change, there’s something wrong.”

“Hire Ms. RIGHT NOW, not Ms. Right; you need managers and executives who are ‘just right’ for the current phase of growth, after all, you won’t have to worry about the next phase if your team can’t actually get you there.” #bookstagram #reidhoffman