SPOTLIGHT: The Strategy to Blitzscaling with Chris Yeh

The world is changing faster and faster and the only way to
thrive is to accept the inevitability of change. Blitzscaling is
all about rapidly growing and scaling a business or product in
the face of uncertainty. Listen to Chris Yeh discuss the
techniques that digital companies like Google, Linkedin and
Facebook use to scale and double in size in a short period of
time. 


 


An active angel investor, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist
and author, Chris is a well-known  technology expert in
Silicon Valley. He has been building Internet businesses since
1995 and has a proven record of helping startups develop their
strategy around emerging technologies, business scaling, growth
initiatives, and digital disruption. 


He is the General Partner at Wasabi Venture, a global venture
fund, startup incubator, and consulting firm, former interim CEO
of Ustream.TV, a platform service business for online videos, and
VP of Marketing for PBWorks, which provides vertical
collaboration solutions for companies. He has also helped grow
numerous other companies, including Symphoniq Corporation,
TargetFirst, and Juno Online Services and FarSight Financial
Services (divisions of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.). 


Chris is the founder and Chairman of the Harvard Business School
Technology Alumni Association. He earned two Bachelor’s degrees
with distinction from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard
Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.