To achieve massive success, you need to have a big new opportunity — one where the market size and gross margins intersect to create enormous potenti… - Reid Hoffman

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.

When a start-up matures to the point where it has a killer product, a clear and sizable market, and a robust distribution channel, it has the opportunity to become a “scale-up,” which is a world-changing company that touches millions or even billions of lives. Often, the fastest and most direct path from start-up to scale-up is the hypergrowth produced by blitzscaling.

In the context of the alliance, the tour of duty represents an ethical commitment by employer and employee to a specific mission. We see this approach as a way to incorporate some of the advantages from both lifetime employment and free agency.