Chapter 2: Managing the board
- “Hiring” Your Board of Directors
- Choosing a VC Partner who is right for your board
- Choosing an Independent Board Member
- The chairman of the board
- Board diversity
- Ways to source diverse board candidates
- Board evolution over time
- Removing members from your board
- An interview with Reid Hoffman
- The role of the CEO: Managing your board of directors
- An interview with Naval Ravikant
Chapter 8: Financing and valuation
- Money money money
- Types of late-stage investors
- How to evaluate late-stage funding sources
- Don’t over-optimize your valuation
- Secondary stock sales
- Types of secondary sales
- How much stock should employees be able to sell?
- Investor sales: An opportunity to renegotiate
- 409A and RSUs
- The secondary stock sale: The employee perspective
- IPOs: Taking a company public
- An interview with Keith Rabois
- An interview with Naval Ravikant
Interviews
- An interview with Keith Rabois
- An interview with Ruchi Sanghvi
- An interview with Shannon Stubo Brayton
- An Interview with Marc Andreessen
- An interview with Claire Hughes Johnson
- An interview with Aaron Levie
- An interview with Erin Fors
- An interview with Sam Altman
- An interview with Patrick Collison
- An interview with Joelle Emerson
- An interview with Hemant Taneja
- An interview with Reid Hoffman
- An interview with Mariam Naficy
- An interview with Naval Ravikant
- An interview with Keith Rabois
- An interview with Naval Ravikant