Technology-enabled Blitzscaling
The power of entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley comes from far more than just providing a fertile environment for startups. Starting up is just the beginning. Scaling up is how you change the world. The kind of scaling that built giants like Google, Facebook, and Alibaba is so different from traditional single-digit growth—not just quantitatively, but qualitatively as well—that it requires a whole new name: Blitzscaling, a relentless speed that overwhelms your competitors and the market. This podcast takes you inside the CS183C classroom at Stanford University where Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh explain the principles of blitzscaling and discuss them with a some of the most impressive technology entrepreneurs and company builders of our time.