Blitzscaling Companies
Amazon epitomizes successful blitzscaling, growing from 150 to 7,600 employees and $5 million to $1.6 billion in revenue from 1996 to 1999.
Other tech companies like Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox and Spotify have also effectively blitzscaled. Speed was imperative to beat rivals to scale and capture the market.
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness." - Schopenhauer
Blitzscaling by LinkedIn and PayPal co-founder Reid Hoffman introduces readers to the revolutionary scaling process from the title, which turns business strategies on their head by prioritizing speed over efficiency even at the cost of uncertainty. The long-term goal is to blow competitors out of the water by creating a lasting competitive advantage via scaling itself.
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