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Chris Yeh Speaker Biography
Chris Yeh is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling, the book that explains how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in record time.
A writer, investor, and entrepreneur, Chris has had a ringside seat in the world of startups and scaleups since 1995. His books help founders, venture capitalists, corporate leaders, policymakers, and everyday people better understand how the internet has changed the way we work together to build amazing organizations.
Hundreds of companies, from garage-dwelling startups to Fortune 50 titans have tapped his knowledge and insights to accelerate and transform their businesses.
Navigating AI Transformation Amidst Hype And Fear
Leaders are bombarded daily by AI hucksters and doomsayers, alternating feverish utopianism and existential terror. Employees are torn between using AI to supercharge their productivity and fearing obsolescence. Chris Yeh cuts through this maelstrom of contradictory extremes by explaining how AI technology actually works, how it will evolve, and how you can apply the lessons of past technology waves, from the industrial revolution onwards, to adapt to today’s challenges.
Blitzscaling
LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.
What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?
The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion –as quickly as possible.
When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company’s life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more.
Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Network Age
If you want to recruit, train, and retain the best people for your company, understand this: the old employer employee compact is dead. Stability doesn’t rule. In today’s entrepreneurial age, the best employees are not pledging lifelong loyalty to your company. Instead, they want to be “entrepreneurial” at work — and they’ll readily leave if they don’t feel like they are growing personally and professionally.
Don’t shy away from this reality; embrace it. Entrepreneurial employees drive business success. These are the creative, adaptive superstars who make your company adaptive. Learn from Silicon Valley, which has long nurtured this kind of talent via a different sort of HR strategy.
In a seminar based on his forthcoming book from Harvard Business Review Press, bestselling author and Chief of Staff to LinkedIn founder/chairman Reid Hoffman, Ben presents a revolutionary way to make a new people pact work for your company. You will learn:
How to create a mutually beneficial relationship between your company and employees that’s based on reciprocity – a two-way flow of value.
• How to craft 2-4 year “tours of duty” with your key employees that ultimately boosts retention.
• Why it’s a good thing for your employees to keep their LinkedIn profiles up-to-date.
• The surprising importance of a “corporate alumni network” — and how to form one for your own
organization.
• The little things that Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn and others do to support entrepreneurial employees who
want to take risks, grow their network, and build their personal brand while working a 9-5 job.
Every adaptive company has a 21st century talent and HR strategy. Ben presents a bold guide for building your own.
Fireside Chat: The Entrepreneurial Cycle of Life and the Hidden Secrets of Startups
You can’t replicate Silicon Valley, but you can learn from it. In the startup ecosystem entrepreneurs are the essential element and everyone else is a provider. Only one out of every ten companies will go on to receive investor funding and only one in ten of those will become a hit. So against this backdrop how does an entrepreneur become successful, remain successful and keep his or her sanity?
In this program, Chris will discuss the lessons he has learned from shepherding startups for the past 19 plus years. He will cover strategies for marketing a product “pre-startup” and follow up marketing strategies like “The 7 steps to prelaunch marketing,” dealing with investor uncertainty, drip marketing and much more.
