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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6N Z podcast. Today's episode features Chris Dixon,

now a general partner on A6 and Z crypto, interviewing Elad Gill, the author of a new book

just out called The High Growth Handbook, Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 people.

Elad is an investor or advisor to numerous tech companies,

as well as co-founded color genomics. He was also co-founder and CEO of a company that was

acquired in the early days of Twitter, where he also then became a VP, and he also worked at Google,

where he started their mobile team and worked on AdSense. The discussion that follows covers everything

from executive hiring to product management to late stage financing and more. The two also

then discuss broader market and tech trends ranging from the continuation of mobile cloud

to machine learning to crypto and finally to longevity, both nearterm and further out in the future. But they begin

with the challenges of scaling. There's sort of famous books like Peter Thiel's book, which is

from zero to one, kind of the early stages of a startup. And I think a lot of blogging and other

kinds of stuff has been out there from like Paul Graham and Fred Wilson and things about

fundraising and product ideation and things like this,

but there hasn't been much written about all the later stages.

I mean, to your point, I think there's, you know, Peter Thiel's book is zero to one,

and really the hope is to have a book that's talking about when you go from 10 to 10,000.

You know, something's working, you have product market fit,

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