High Growth Handbook
Also known as High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
Elad Gil's book on scaling a startup from 10 or 20 employees to thousands.
- High Growth Handbook is a book by Elad Gil, published by Stripe Press.
- It covers what comes after product-market fit: scaling a company to thousands of people.
- Chapters cover the CEO's role, the board, hiring executives, org structure, M&A, late-stage funding and IPOs.
- It mixes Gil's advice with interviews with founders and executives.
- The full text is free on the book's website.
Why it matters. For founders and executives at fast-growing startups; the author notes that little tactical advice exists for this stage because most startups never reach it.
- Author
- Elad Gil1
- Publisher
- Stripe Press1
- First published
- 20183
- Pages
- About 349 (median across editions)3
- Price
- $20 (print)1
- Interviews with
- Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman, Patrick Collison, Aaron Levie, Naval Ravikant, Keith Rabois, Claire Hughes Johnson and others2
- Origin
- Many chapters started as posts on Gil's blog2
Where to start
-
Welcome to the High Growth Handbook (opens growth.eladgil.com)2
The introduction: why scaling advice is scarce and who the book is for.
Links
Sources
- High Growth Handbook (Stripe Press) (opens press.stripe.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Welcome to the High Growth Handbook (opens growth.eladgil.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- High Growth Handbook (Open Library) (opens openlibrary.org) read 30 Sep 2026
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