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These companies stand for more than convenience and low cost; they seek to create products and services that customers truly love. In this new paradigm, scale and personalization happily coexist.
Randy Komisar • I F**KING LOVE THAT COMPANY: How a New Generation of Brand Builders Is Defining the Post-Amazon World
Accel Partners, one of the top brand-name VC firms, invested a small part of its ninth fund to lead the series A round in Facebook. Seven years later, Facebook had an IPO valuing the company at $100 billion, giving the initial investment at least a 300x return.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Li Jin • Interview with Kajabi’s CPO: The secret giant in the passion economy that has bootstrapped to $1B GMV run rate
It is a top 100 website on the internet, and amazingly, it operates with a staff of only a few dozen people.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
The Climb: How To Build a Billion Dollar Run Rate
zuora.com
One of our most important management tasks is maintaining the proper balance between short-term profit performance and investment for future strength and growth.
David Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
Dave smartly built a list of his most valued customers. You controlled it. That means Dave is no longer dependent on any third party service like Groupon, Google, or Facebook.
Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box
