Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars. He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held. The belief that other people must hold the same opinions as you do.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Leadership Self-aware IPO 73

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. How do they do it? Learn to stop.

Crisis 11

Crisis IPO Film How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

If you want your business to grow sustainably at scale, you need to figure out how to make big investments that will best differentiate you in your core. The key element in all of this is how to apply the meritocracy. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. When I started recruiting talent for my new company, before candidates asked about our strategy, they asked how much money we had. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. She had essentially passed several tests — how to score a meeting, and how to turn a one-time coffee into an ongoing relationship.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. Second, for a book we're writing on the DNA of entrepreneurship, my co-authors Richard Harrington, Tsun-yan Hsieh, and I have developed a checklist on how to reflect on failure. In one context or another, you've likely failed, too.

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Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. No one was crying, but they wanted to.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10