Recode Decode: 'High Growth Handbook' author Elad Gil

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Startup advisor and Color Genomics co-founder Elad Gil talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People." In this episode:00:03:30 - Why Gil stepped down as CEO of Color00:06:00 - Why he wrote "High Growth Handbook"00:09:52 - Is there too much reinvention in tech businesses?00:11:25 - Startup myths and Rachleff's Law00:17:20 - Contrarians are usually wrong!00:23:00 - How to build a board and evolve it as your company grows00:29:14 - The "old-timer" problem00:32:14 - The Sheryl Sandberg effect and when CEOs should step aside00:37:10 - Is innovation dying in Silicon Valley?00:41:05 - Are startups threatened more by the Big 5 or their own founders?00:43:59 - The dangers of Silicon Valley losing its optimism00:52:05 - San Francisco's bad governance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Reco.
0:25.4	You may know me as a startup person or maybe just an upstart, but in my spare time I talk
0:29.7	tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:33.5	Today in the red chair is Elad Gill, the co-founder of Color Genomics and Longtime Startup
0:38.7	Advisor.
0:39.7	I've talked to him before about Color Genomics and other things, but now he's the author
0:43.1	of a new book called High Growth Handbook, Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 people.
0:48.8	Elad, welcome to Reco Decode.
0:50.3	Thanks so much for having me.
0:51.3	So let's go through your background first before we start, because I want people to get
0:55.0	a sense of who you are, not just some person pontificating on startups of which there are
0:58.8	many.
0:59.8	So let's go into what you do and how you got to where you are.
1:02.8	Sure, yeah.
1:03.8	I mean, if we want to start at the very beginning, I have sort of a weird background.
1:06.0	So, first is not exactly what you're saying.
1:08.9	Yeah, I was born into a Muslim.
1:11.2	Okay.
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