Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. So you met me in 2010.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. So you met me in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Luckily we were never a unicorn so we didn’t have to have a destructive massive down-round that makes it harder (but not impossible) to get done.

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