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Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

John Doerr – Measure what matters

If you look past the author’s boundless Andy Grove adoration, there are some useful lessons to be learnt.

To benefit the most from network effects: build local scale, fiercely fight for each new value pocket, and remember that every hockey stick will become an S-curve

To benefit the most from network effects: build local scale, fiercely fight for each new value pocket, and remember that every hockey stick will become an S-curve

The book proves that those A16Z folks are very good at marketing sauce on not-so-ground-breaking ideas (as described by Sebastian Mallaby)

Venture Capital has been of major importance in the making of the tech industry in general, and Silicon Valley in particular.

Venture Capital has been of major importance in the making of the tech industry in general, and Silicon Valley in particular.

Sebastian Mallaby – The Power Law

Nice as a description of the historical evolution of the VC phenomenon, but rather condoning in its evaluation.

The philosophy of the Silicon Valley elite is just a bunch of ill understood one-liners from preferably obscure thinkers

The philosophy of the Silicon Valley elite is just a bunch of ill understood one-liners from preferably obscure thinkers

Adrian Daub – What tech calls thinking

Entertaining and polemic book, although many of the author’s points hardly need to be argued.

The Silicon Valley philosophy of innovation and disruption undervalues the importance of maintenance and durability

The Silicon Valley philosophy of innovation and disruption undervalues the importance of maintenance and durability

Lee Vinsel, Andrew Russel – The innovation delusion

Funny enough, the polemic narrative applies all the trick of typical innovation literature to promote a maintenance mindset.

The success of Uber and AirBnB is (partly) due to structural exploration of legal limits

The success of Uber and AirBnB is (partly) due to structural exploration of legal limits

Brad Stone – The upstarts

Most illustrative are the descriptions of failed competitors, which show importance of both luck and ruthlessness.

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