Strategy Session: When not to blitzscale, how to persuade your board to let you slow down, and: Are you in a Glengarry Glen Ross market? w/questions from Endeavor and co-host Youngme Moon of HBS
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When's the right time for hypergrowth? Should you take investment when you don’t need the money? How do you deal with an exhausted team? Global entrepreneurs facing hyperfast growth ask Reid their questions about raising capital, pivoting their product, bootstrapping vs. blitzscaling and more. Featuring six entrepreneurs from Endeavor, and cohosted by Harvard professor Youngme Moon, of the great HBS podcast After Hours.
Youngme Moon is the Donald K. David Professor of Business at Harvard Business School; the author of the bestselling book Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd; and co-host of After Hours, presented by Harvard Business Review.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta have incredible talent at every position. |
| 0:07.0 | It's like this is a huge push. |
| 0:08.0 | There are fires burning when you're going home. |
| 0:10.0 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:11.0 | It's such an idiot. |
| 0:12.0 | And then you go back to this is totally gonna be amazing. |
| 0:15.0 | There are so many easy ways. |
| 0:17.0 | So, so I have no idea what to do. |
| 0:19.0 | Sorry, we made a mistake. |
| 0:20.0 | But you have to time it right. |
| 0:22.0 | Yes. |
| 0:23.0 | We're gonna have a three-bedroom apartment. |
| 0:24.0 | So it just seemed absolutely not all ten years later. |
| 0:27.0 | That's what I just say. |
| 0:28.0 | We have a baby just to try to do it. |
| 0:34.0 | This is Master's of Scale. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, |
| 0:42.0 | and your host. |
| 0:43.0 | Earlier this season, we tested a new format |
| 0:46.0 | where entrepreneurs asked their most burning questions. |
| 0:49.0 | Your response as an audience was overwhelmingly positive. |
| 0:52.0 | What we heard back was that you found their questions |
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