Chris Yeh

I, um, I, Well, to conclude, Joe, I'd like to finish on a handful of questions I ask all my guests.

So my last guest was Chris Yeh.

So he's a Silicon Valley investor, entrepreneur too, and author of the best known, or author of a few books, best known for writing the book Blitzscaling.

So Chris's question to you is, consumer behavior is the hardest thing to predict.

The way you can tell is you can focus on two key principles.

Hi, I'm Chris Yeh, and I'm best known as the co-author of Blitzscaling.

That's a book that I wrote with my friend Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, which is all about how companies can grow enormous multi-billion dollar businesses by prioritizing speed over efficiency to win a winner-take-most market.

So obviously everyone's very interested in OpenAI.

Hi, I'm Nick Hague, and welcome to the World's Greatest Business Thinkers Podcast.

[upbeat music] My guest today is Chris Yeh.

He's the co-author of Blitzscaling, the book that gave Silicon Valley a name for the thing it had been doing for 20 years without quite knowing what to call it, i.e., growing faster than you can afford to on purpose because, in some markets, second place is worth nothing.

He's also the co-author of The Alliance, which argues that employment relationship between employer and employee is not a family, and we should stop pretending otherwise.

He's here today partly because his ideas are great, but also because the world has changed a great deal since he wrote his books, and so I want to know if his thoughts have now changed.

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Welcome to the World's Greatest Business Thinkers Podcast, Chris.

Thank you, Nick.

The way you can tell is you can focus on two key principles.

Hi, I'm Chris Yeh, and I'm best known as the co-author of Blitzscaling.

That's a book that I wrote with my friend Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, which is all about how companies can grow enormous multi-billion dollar businesses by prioritizing speed over efficiency to win a winner-take-most market.

So obviously everyone's very interested in OpenAI.

I go to bed with like 10 ideas.

Some of them are adjacent to the category that we're in, but then obviously like as a result of being a VC, so I was at Plug and Play for four years, but then people don't know two years before that I was at Blitzscaling Ventures, which is another VC firm that's run by Chris Yeh.

Reid Hoffman, actually the co-founder of LinkedIn, is one of the partners.

And Jeff Abbott, who I met while I was in France building a company, my second startup.