High Growth Handbook

Ready to scale your startup from 10 to 1,000 employees without everything falling apart? This is the essential playbook for navigating the chaos of hypergrowth, giving you the tested strategies to not just survive, but thrive as you build a market-defining company. You'll get tactical advice straight from Silicon Valley veteran Elad Gil on the most critical challenges you'll face. Learn how to recruit and manage an executive team, run effective board meetings, handle late-stage funding, and decide when it's the right time to sell.

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and investor who has helped scale iconic companies including Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square from their early days. After experiencing hypergrowth firsthand as an operator at Google and Twitter, he recognized the same challenges repeating across the many startups he advised. This handbook codifies those hard-won lessons, offering a practical and essential playbook for leaders navigating the chaos of building a world-changing company.