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High Growth Handbook
What It’s About
Elad Gil reduces the successful founder's secret to a single sentence: you grow not by doing more, but by doing less yourself. This isn't a motivational book but a toolkit: job descriptions, written feedback, clear meetings. Solutions that make heroics unnecessary. The work only you can do is far smaller than you think.
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High Growth Handbook: Summary
The hardest-working person in the room
A young founder once told Sam Altman, with some pride, that his company had seventy-four investors and that he answered every one of them right away. When the annual audit request landed, his was the first completed spreadsheet back. Precise. Fast. Dependable. Altman heard him out, then told him that meanwhile his company was on fire.
Users? Barely any. Revenue wasn't really coming in either.
He added that investors care about returns, not about how briskly he sends the paperwork back. A person who spends his days replying to seventy-four people is doing precisely none of the work those seventy-four people gave him money to do. And the cruelest part is that the whole time he feels like a good person. Diligent. Conscientious. He was working, wasn't he?
