FROM ILYA STREBULAEV, STANFORD PROFESSOR,
AND ALEX DANG, VENTURE BUILDER AT AMAZON & MCKINSEY
The Venture Mindset
How to make smarter bets
and achieve extraordinary results​
Behind life changing companies like Amazon, Google, Moderna, SpaceX, and Zoom, are Venture Capital investors. VCs are known for their extraordinary ability to spot emerging trends, identify disruptive startups, attract talent, and bring new industries into being.
The Venture Mindset is a new mental model where failure is a must, ideas are rejected in their myriads in search of a single winner, due diligence is put on its head, dissent is encouraged, plugs are pulled, and time horizons are extended. It is fundamentally different from the mindset found throughout the rest of the business world. This mindset helps leaders to develop a strong pipeline of ideas, make smarter, quicker decisions, and deliver more value at scale.
U.S. publication date: 5/21/24. Pre-order now!
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The book is full of powerful, practical lessons on changing how we think and act.
Many principles mentioned in the book helped us build Zoom and they will help you as well.
Strebulaev and Dang really know their stuff – and they deliver their insights and advice with remarkable clarity.
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Read this book NOW! It is a very important book for corporations and investors.
As a student of Ilya, I was captivated by his venture capital class. I can’t wait to read The Venture Mindset and continue learning from his wisdom.
About authors
Ilya Strebulaev
Ilya Strebulaev is the foremost academic expert on venture capital. As the founder of the Venture Capital Initiative and a Professor of Private Equity and Finance at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a popular class on venture capital, his research has been widely published in leading academic journals and featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg and the Harvard Business Review. In 2023 he was named a Top Voice on LinkedIn.
Alex Dang
Alex Dang is a CEO, a senior technology executive, and an advisor on innovation and digital strategy. He has two decades of senior leadership as a Partner at McKinsey and Ernst & Young, and as a product leader at Amazon, where he designed and launched numerous new businesses and solutions for millions of customers across ecommerce, supply chain, and AI. He graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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