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SCALING

Through Chaos

THE FOUNDERS GUIDE TO BUILDING AND LEADING TEAMS FROM 0 TO 1000

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You start a business because you’re obsessed with solving a problem. But as you scale, you’ll discover that 50% of your time is taken up with people – hiring, retaining, organizing and inspiring your team. Packed with deeply researched recommendations and first-hand accounts from the world’s best entrepreneurs, Scaling Through Chaos is the canonical guide to how to build, structure and run a high-performing team.

We've distilled 200,000 career profiles from more than 200 startups, enriched with insights, frameworks and case studies from 60 top founders and operators, to provide you with stage-by-stage guidance on how to make the right decisions across every part of your business.

We’ve also built TeamPlan, a companion app to Scaling Through Chaos.

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Org design benchmarking tool to hire the right people, in the right roles, at the right time. Based on 200,000 career profiles from 200 high-growth tech companies, TeamPlan helps you make data-driven decisions about org design and benchmark team growth.

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Figma
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I wish I had this book in hand when we started Figma”
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Spotify
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When we started Spotify nearly two decades ago, we had to figure out everything for ourselves – not many people ‘got’ what we were trying to do. As I look to the next 20 years, I'm excited to know that the next generation of founders can access an unprecedented wealth of collective wisdom, so they can shortcut that steep learning curve and supercharge their startups.”
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Contributors include
Assaf Rappaport
CEO & Co-Founder, Wiz
Jason Citron
CEO & Co-Founder, Discord
Nadia Singer
Chief People Officer, Figma
Alexis Lê-Quôc
CTO & Founder, Datadog
Kate Ryder
CEO & Founder, Maven
Hanno Renner
CEO & Co-Founder, Personio
Job Van Der Voort
CEO & Co-Founder, Remote
Michael Manapat
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Notion
Surabhi Gupta
SVP Engineering, Robinhood
Kipp Bodnar
Chief Marketing Officer, Hubspot
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SCALING THROUGH CHAOS IN THE AGE OF AI

AI is reshaping team structures and fueling the demand for a new breed of talent. Index Ventures and Slush, a not-for-profit organisation supporting entrepreneurship in Europe, surveyed more than 600 founders and operators to learn how AI is impacting talent at scaling startups in Europe.

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TEAMPLAN: AN ORG DESIGN BENCHMARKING TOOL FOR RAPIDLY SCALING STARTUPS

You’ve just closed your Series A, meticulously planned your product roadmap, and presented revenue targets to your team. The next day, your head of engineering drops big news: instead of the anticipated 20% increase in her team's size, she needs to double her headcount to deliver on the product roadmap. She argues that in her experience, this is the norm for your ambitious plans. But it’s far from what you’d anticipated. How do you determine the best course of action?

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REWARDING

Talent

Employee ownership helps attract the world’s best talent to small startups with limited cash, but near limitless potential. The result is that these startups have the people they need to succeed early on. Our guide and app are designed to help you make critical decisions on employee ownership.

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DESTINATION

Europe

Take nearly any successful American tech company and you’ll find that on average at least 30 percent of its revenue comes from international markets, usually led by Europe. Use our guide, packed with insights and case studies, to internationalise from the US to Europe.

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DESTINATION

USA

Transforming into a global tech player by making it in the hyper-competitive US environment is a daunting challenge. We provide frameworks you can use to plan and execute the right combination of strategic, tactical and practical moves.

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