bForeword by Bill Gates pLinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning iMasters of Scalei podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.b pWhat 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 pThe 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. pWhen 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