rom September 2015 to December 2015, I took Stanford University’s CS183C course — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Chris Yeh, and Allen Blue.

I listened and took notes on every single lecture. Now that the class is over, I wanted to compile all of the top lessons from the professors and guest lecturers.

Each of the speakers offered their own perspectives, and although there aren’t exact answers to challenges of scale, I noticed a few key themes / challenges from the leaders who have scaled companies. I outlined the key points below.