One of the ways we developed the material in this book was by teaching a class at Stanford University in the fall of 2015. This class, CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling, helped us refine our ideas and provided some of the content in the form of quotes from the various distinguished guests who visited our class.
During the course of our class, we asked our students to write two essays and a final reflection. We’ve included links to the best of the essays, and a sample of the final reflections, both to reward our students for their hard work, and to give you, the reader, some additional perspectives on the topic of blitzscaling. For those of you who are reading the paper version of this book, you can find the links below on the Blitzscaling.com website.
medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/featured-essays-for-assignment-1-f8b34938e5e2
Oguzhan Atay
Robert Chun
Jorge Cueto
Axel Ericsson
Jocelyn Neff
medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/featured-essays-for-assignment-2-c620149f8eb5
Jorge Cueto
Skylar Dorosin
Aaron Kalb
Jocelyn Neff
Chaitanya Asawa: medium.com/@casawa/ride-of-your-life-678bea009d3f
Christina Chen: medium.com/@christina.chen/teachers-open-the-door-you-enter-by-yourself-c9135aadef92
Jorge Cueto: medium.com/@jcueto/taking-the-leap-399ec46cf3a5
Maxine Cunningham: medium.com/@mmcunnin/blitzscaling-with-reid-hoffman-co-final-assignment-62e921ba2bf3
Skylar Dorosin: medium.com/@sdorosin/from-household-to-nation-final-musings-on-blitzscaling-2b8b6e27a3ce
Axel Ericsson: medium.com/@ericsson_axel/lightning-fast-final-essay-on-blitzscaling-612d12fc2139
Andre Esteva: medium.com/@andreesteva/cs-183c-final-essay-blitzscaling-a-foundation-for-rapid-company-growth-e59043d63292
Vijay Goel: medium.com/@vijaygoel/blitzscaling-knowing-when-it-s-time-to-go-all-in-55f4cad85aaa
Marcus Gomez: medium.com/@mvgomez/final-lessons-6ac03fdb1397
Kurt Heinrich: medium.com/@kurtjheinrich/cs183c-blitzscaling-takeaways-final-essay-10609b080562
Brandon Hill: medium.com/@brandon_hill/how-and-when-to-blitzscale-f54c31f2a4fd
Teddy Jungreis: medium.com/@teddyjungreis/blitzscaling-for-dummies-c3b48272acec
Aaron Kalb: medium.com/@kalb/blitzscaling-retrospective-b8e72bf81229
Daniel Kharitonov: medium.com/@volkfox/cs183c-final-essay-1a3242eca9f
Charles Lu: medium.com/@charleslu/like-lightning-638c9051beb8
Ryan McKinney: medium.com/@ryanmckinney/blitzscaling-the-future-8c9c27c1e1e7
Joann McMaster: medium.com/@joannmacmaster/99c620beaa8a
Jocelyn Neff: medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-student-collection/blitzscaling-a-chemical-reaction-bf9e318fe903
Nirmit Parikh: medium.com/@Nirmit_Parikh/cs-183c-blitzscaling-168d208532aa
Veeral Patel: medium.com/@vral/2ab47a57a162
Dayne Rathbone: medium.com/@daynerathbone/blitzscaling-takeaways-73570800f84b
Shikhar Shrestha: medium.com/@shikharshrestha/final-reflections-on-blitzscaling-a8eb5aacba96
Jason Weeks: medium.com/@Weeksy_J/cs183c-final-assignment-9be1b4af8087