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BUT FIRST, TAKE A LOOK AT THE MARKETLate-stage founders frequently turn to Gil for advice on the nuts and bolts of scaling for hypergrowth, looking to pick his brain on everything from managing the board to handling mergers and acquisitions. After fielding the same set of questions over and over, Gil felt compelled to write High Growth Handbook, in which he interviewed leading entrepreneurs and codified his own advice in order to create a toolkit for all of the post product/market fit companies seeking tested wisdom for building the plane mid-flight.

Future Founders, Here’s How to Spot and Build in Nonobvious Markets

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Running a business, it turns out, is harder than telling somebody how to run a business. I learned by following Moses’s Talmudic wisdom, a bit of trial and error, and asking endless questions of the engineers and executives around me. I was basically a technology-trained engineer, with a bit of high-level strategic exposure, now dealing with the nitty-gritty of running a very large and complicated company. Jerrold posted $80 million a year in revenue, employed thousands of people, and was deep in parts manufacturing, cable-TV system construction, and financing.

Born to Be Wired

John Malone

So maybe ten thousand years from now or a hundred thousand years from now, people will say, “Oh yeah, Americans. I’ve heard of Americans.” [8] You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work. [8]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

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