John Doerr
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Associated Works
Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry (2003) — Forord — 57 eksemplarer
Zero Gravity: Riding Venture Capital from High-Tech Start-up to Breakout IPO (2000) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 47 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1951-06-29
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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This suffered a little from having the business book’s downfall of having one too many examples to prove its point but is still an interesting and insightful read. The argument makes perfect sense and the detail of the early heats of Google is particularly fascinating.
Worth reading. Covers similar ground to Bill Gates book at the beginning and then expands on it. Optimistic with sense of urgency. Great explanation of the different type of investment companies and their goals.
A good book that has some great ideas. OKR's (Objectives with Key Results) have a wide application - they can be used in various business situations (which is the book's focus), personal development, family interaction, and other social and political applications. I found that the presentation was decent, but at times I wanted more detail. I think that the appendix items are the most useful, as they show the ideas being applied (there is a example of how Google uses OKR's).
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It is glitzy, upbeat, full of boosterism, but has a real plan, based on data and projections, and includes warnings on how hard the plan will be to carry out. It includes estimates and goals in units of gigatons of greenhouse gases and trillions of dollars, as well as effort needed in both technology and politics.
Speed and Scale has an interesting feature, its own highlighting. Every other page or so includes red highlights over one or two phrases, phrases that define important points of the plan. So, one way to read this book is to leaf through its pages noting these highlights and stopping to read details as need or interest demands.
It also includes pages of comments by industry leaders, who give their takes on some aspects of our climate problems. These pages come with a gray background, so they can be easily skipped as desired.
There are details to argue about in Speed & Scale, but on the whole this is an important book.… (mere)