{"product_id":"super-founders-what-data-reveals-about-billion-dollar-startups-9781541768420","title":"Super Founders: What Data Reveals about Billion-Dollar Startups","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuper Founders \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003euses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest--revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAli Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one--30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder's age, his or her university's ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a few: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMost unicorn founders had no industry experience;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere's no disadvantage to being a solo founder or to being a non-technical CEO;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLess than 15% went through any kind of accelerator program;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver half had strong competitors when starting--being first to market with an idea does not actually matter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYou will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders\/investors of \u003cb\u003eZoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eSquare\u003c\/b\u003e, venture capital investors like \u003cb\u003eElad Gil\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePeter Thiel\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAlfred Lin\u003c\/b\u003e from \u003cb\u003eSequoia Capital \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eKeith Rabois\u003c\/b\u003e of \u003cb\u003eFounders Fund\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePacked with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies, \u003ci\u003eSuper Founders \u003c\/i\u003eis a paradigm-shifting and \u003cb\u003eactionable\u003c\/b\u003e guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541768420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Ali Tamaseb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39816877932725,"sku":"9781541768420","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bee4f850-61b0-4003-887c-f4177a4f0d31.jpg?v=1618927370","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/super-founders-what-data-reveals-about-billion-dollar-startups-9781541768420","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}