Combining Design thinking , Lean Startup and Agile

Design thinking

 - it’s all about the user 

helps understand the user’s pain, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, in order to create new strategies and solutions.

“Painstorming”, vs “Brainstorming” 

Empathize with your users

Define your users’ needs, their problem, and your insights

Ideate by challenging assumptions and creating ideas for innovative solutions

Prototype to start creating solutions

Test solutions

Lean Startup

“Lean startup  aims to shorten product development cycles - fail fast and focus on what the customer wants - it’s about the pivot 

- “this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning.” — Wikipedia

Globally, 90% of startups fail (Forbes) and the number one reason is market failure: “They make products no one wants.” (Fortune).

Agile

Agile is all about producing tangible, working results after each iteration... quickly 

Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile combined 

• Empathize, Define and Ideate through Design Thinking
• Turn ideas into Business models following the lean startup
• Build and deliver the product incrementally and faster through Agile processes.

5 hacks to access your creative genius

1. Pump up the volume
2. Have a cuppa
3. Go for a walk outside
4. Close your eyes
5. Just go and be creative 

To find out more - read this Article from Amantha Imber

The BSI Innovation team

Proud to be a member of this team of Humans, who has bee supporting AUSTRALIAN Innovation access grants and capital for over 20 years

Linh La, Harvey Gartrell, Jack Dean, Marcus Webb, Mick Lynch,  Peter Damnjanovic , Ivan Kaye, Nusa Wijaya 

Bsi Innovation is part of Www.bsi.com.au whose “pulse” is to “help you create your generational legacy”

Looking forward to continuing our journey to 2025 and beyond. 

New Huawei Phone to take 3d photos - a game changer

Huawei Technologies Co. is planning to unveil a new phone with a camera, capable of taking three-dimensional pictures for augmented reality applications.

 

The phone, code-named Princeton internally, will be announced this month and go on sale within a few weeks. The technology uses sensors developed by Sony Corp. that can accurately measure distances by bouncing light off surfaces.

 

The science behind Sony’s “Time of Flight” technology is as follows:

• The ToF sensor inside the camera pulses out infrared light.
• Light bounces off surfaces and back to sensors.
• Sensor detects depth by measuring differences in energy levels.
• Depth data creates 3D map of environment.
• App makers can get creative: design rooms with virtual furniture or have a Pikachu lounge on your desk.

                 

The new feature — dubbed “3D Camera” at Huawei — comes at a critical juncture for the smartphone industry, which is facing cooling global demand as consumers find fewer reasons to upgrade to new phones. Huawei is aiming to boost sales and win market share from competitors such as Apple Inc. by offering users the ability to generate 3-D models of themselves and the environment in real-time, and share it with others.

 

This is technology that has never been seen before and, at the extreme, has the potential to change how we view the world.

 

 

Besides generating pictures that can be viewed from numerous angles, Huawei’s new camera can create 3-D models of people and objects that can be used by augmented-reality apps. The new camera will also let developers control apps and games in new ways, such as hand gestures.

 

For Sony, the world leader in image sensors used in regular cameras, 3-D cameras could generate billions in additional revenue from the sale of its new components. The company bought Brussels-based Softkinetic in 2015, combining the Belgian startup’s time-of-flight technology with its own semiconductor manufacturing prowess to create 3-D chips small enough to fit inside smartphones. 

 

While Apple’s FaceID facial-recognition feature is also powered by 3-D sensors, it relies on a different technology called Structured Light, which can measure depth at shorter distances. Sony’s time-of-flight sensors can do so at longer distances. 

Is this a game changer? 

Four Key Elements for Innovation-Ready Tech

https://intelligentpathways.com.au/blog/four-key-elements-for-innovation-ready-tech/ 

So you have an idea?

How long will it take to make it a reality? 

Here are four key elements that will get you on the front foot and ensure your technology environment is ‘innovation ready’.

1. Service-based Architecture

Adopting a service-based architecture is essential for rapid, robust software development. Having a suite of standard capabilities or microservices such as authentication, authorisation, logging and monitoring reduces development time and will help you get your minimum valuable product (MVP) to market sooner rather than later.

The critical success factor for reuse will be a comprehensive service catalogue that enables easy discoverability and accessibility of your capabilities.

2. Rapid Experimentation

Rapid experimentation or prototyping goes beyond wireframes and mocked up screenshots and provides stakeholders the opportunity to interact with the ‘product’ prior to development. This a great vehicle for beta testing and fast feedback but also for reassuring nervous stakeholders who are footing the bill.

To maximise the value of this activity you should use an industry standard analysis tool like New Relic or Google Tag Manager to analyse how users interact with the solution. Knowing which features they used most, or which weren’t used at all will help you to deliver your MVP.

3. Predictable Implementation

A common blocker we see for quick time to market is governance, or the lack of automated governance. The development team think they’re done and dusted only to be told their application doesn’t meet x-y-z criteria.

Setting up a culture of DevSecOps within your organization can help solve some of these challenges by enabling automation around core activities such as Testing, a concept explored in one of our earlier blogs Building Agile Confidence with DevOps.

It is important to invest time and resources in developing best practice patterns for core activities such as API Design, API Implementation, API Security, security controls for cloud deployment, fully automated contract testing etc. to ensure consistency and enable fast deployment. This is not necessarily a cheap exercise but if you’re in an industry where timing and security are of equal consequence than it will be well worth the investment in the long run.

To minimise ‘bill shock’ that can come along with cloud infrastructure you should look to track your operational costs by using config tools to monitor your resource configurations and setting up alerts and notifications. You should also leverage vendor tools and guidelines such as the AWS Well Architected Framework to validate that your infrastructure is as secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient as possible.

4. Development Platforms & Frameworks

There are a myriad of low-code development platforms and application generators available in the market. These tools can save a lot of time in the delivery of a product by enabling multi-channel deployment and eliminating the need to write repetitive code. They also have the added advantage of providing you access to ready-made best practice approaches to application setup that have been tried and tested by many developers before you.

However, beware the temptation of using less experienced, lower cost resources when using these platforms. If (or when) something goes wrong, it is essential that your developers still know what is going on under the hood in order to resolve issues quickly. As pointed out in a TechTarget article, ‘tools help a competent person move faster. They will not help those lacking mastery move better.’

Reaping the Benefits

There are many tangible benefits these elements will bring to your innovation program and to your organisation as a whole, but the intangible value they bring will be just as vital to your success.

• Through reuse, service-based architecture builds resilience.
• Through visibility, rapid experimentation builds shared understanding.
• Through certainty, predictable implementation builds trust.
• Through efficiency, development platforms & frameworks build confidence.

In Conclusion

You will not win any innovation awards for having a robust, reusable and predictable technology stack. But reducing the hurdles for getting your next big idea to market could mean the difference between being the next iPhone or the next Nokia.

Jeremy Ford

Application Development Lead

Jeremy is the Application Development Lead in the Queensland Services team. Jeremy has over 14 years’ software design and development experience and has worked on a variety of enterprise scale applications across the government, property and financial sectors. Jeremy specialises in Java and Web application development utilising modern software methodologies, such as Agile

12 top tech predictions in 2019

1. Customer service will be key 
2. Cyber security will be up there 
3. Evolvement of the workplace will change 
4. Soft skills will become increasingly important as AI does everything else
5. Agile development will become the standard
6. Blockchain will evolve and scale becoming ubiquitous 
7. Synthetic biology will evolve
8. AI will create more effective and easy slicing and dicing to get effective data to make informed decisions
9. Communications, Internet of Things (IOT) and 5G will be a game changer 
10. Online marketplaces will see death of Department stores
11. The Gig Economy will Grow 
12. Hosting your own servers will be a thing of the past 

Here is a link to Inc’s top 31tech preductions in 2019

https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/31-tech-predictions-for-2019.html

I tend to agree with Michael Osipenko who posted on Linkedin  that Customer Experience will be the biggie  (#21 on Incs list)

 "Today we live in a subscription economy. And like it or not, your customers are at the epicenter of your business model

“We have all become this customer. And we expect that your business consistently delights and delivers your service conveniently--in the way we want it, and with the outcomes we expect. We have become your second board of directors and we will have increasing power in the future, so you'd better build a healthy ongoing relationship with us if you want to succeed." Mark Heller, Zuora 

#futurism  #subscription  #prediction

What are your top tech predictions to 2020?

Venture Capital in Australia: A map of the Australian innovation ecosystem

Venture Capital in Australia: A map of the Australian innovation ecosystem: (Note from Ivan Kaye .... www.bsi.com.au are proud to play a part in helping innovators access grants and capital and www.bbg.business h...

The Philippines' growing middle class is on track to outspend Italy’s by 2030

https://www.weforum.org/

"The global middle class is forecast to expand to more than 5 billion by 2030, and most of that growth will take place in Asia."

29 Nov 2018

1. Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content

The burgeoning middle class in the Philippines is set to exceed the spending power of Italy’s middle class by 2030, in a sign of the Southeast Asian nation’s growing economic might. 

Along with many of its neighbours, the Philippines has a growing tech-savvy population, an exploding digital economy and an increasingly integrated regional trading network, all of which is helping to fuel the emergence of this new wealthy demographic. 

Digital, social and mobile uptake in Southeast Asia - 2018

Image: ASEAN Up

Digital penetration has reached well over half of the nation’s population with 67 million internet usersand the same number of social media users. This rapidly expanding digital culture is facilitating online businesses both domestically and throughout the region.

The country’s growing affluence is attracting attention from global businesses keen to invest in dynamic emerging economies.

For example, IKEA is bringing its flat-packed world of self-assembly furniture to Manila. Covering 65,000 square metres in the prestigious SM Mall of Asia, the new outlet will be the world’s largest IKEA outlet. The Swedish retailer also aims to appeal to online shoppers with an ecommerce facility.

Business is burgeoning on the homegrown front too. Just last year, the country had its first unicorn in Revolution Precrafted, which was valued at more than $1 billion. The company makes homes that snap together like Lego blocks, which is helping to address Asia’s population boom.

The rise of the middle class in the Philippines is indicative of wider global demographic changes.

Have you read?

• What just happened? 5 top stories from our ASEAN summit 2018
• 5 charts that show what is happening to the middle class around the world
• This bookstore in Malaysia is open 24/7

Rising out of poverty

For the first time, more people around the world are now living in middle-class or rich households rather than in households deemed to be poor or vulnerable to poverty. The global middle class is forecast to expand to more than 5 billion by 2030, and most of that growth will take place in Asia. .

Image: Brookings

Consumption by the middle class accounts for more than one-third of global demand, according to think-tank Brookings. 

At current growth rates, Asia will command more than 50% of global middle class consumption by 2030. 

No wonder then that global businesses are starting to pay attention to this rapidly expanding market.

The Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking

For every problem or project.... ask
Who, What, When, Where , Why and How


How do you solve a problem?

Listen to our children

Young people our hope carriers 

You Inherently know what’s right!

You give us hope 

You know what is right

And you are taking the baton

We need to rely on the spirit of the young and listen to them 

So to our children 

Keep believing

Keep marching

Keep questioning 

Keep raising your voice 

You are the future - you have the opportunity to remake the world

You have the opportunity to right the wrongs

You have the powers when aroused of bringing down the towers of oppression and what is wrong. 

Now’s a good time to be aroused 

Now’s a good time to be fired up

This is your future

(Inspired by Obama’s talk at Madiba’s 100 anniversary )

Solving the graduate unemployment problem

A great idea from  Jaryd Raizon  - social Entrepreneurship in action 

The Pain

There is a 52.5% youth unemployment rate, and near 28% graduate unemployment rate between the ages of 15-24.

The graduate unemployment problem is an age-old, catch-22 situation:

 In order to get a job, you need experience, but the only way to get experience is to get a job. As a result you have these super smart to inexperienced graduates - bursting with fresh ideas ready to start their careers - unemployed - finding gigs driving Uber’s , working retail and waiting tables to pay off their student loans, while struggling to take that first step along their chosen career path. 

“One of the biggest pain points in running a business has always been talent. It’s not just about finding the right people but keeping them, growing them, empowering them,” said founder, Jaryd Raizon.

At the same time companies are not actively investing in the long term by hiring and educating the youth. They’re allocating their budgets towards ‘experienced individuals’, which is further perpetuating the unemployment problem.”

Employers are clueless when it comes to hiring youth with little-to-no experience. 

Ill-equipped the students fund it difficult to transition from the tertiary world to the real world. 

The system is broken and needs to be fixed

Jaryd Raizon talks to Shan Radcliffe of  Bizcommunity http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/536/184362.html

On how he is solving this problem .

Jaryd Raizon, founder of Trusted Talent and Trusted Interns

So Jaryd - what is Trusted Interns ?

 Trusted Interns is an online platform that connects graduates and first-time job seekers with start-ups, corporates and agencies looking to onboard fresh talent. 

We realised that we could only solve this problem at scale by removing friction with technology and making the system so efficient that we could charge stupidly low fees. And so the Trusted Interns platform was born.

How does the platform work? 

Think LinkedIn Jobs or Indeed, but for internships. Interns and employers create accounts (for free) and populate their profiles with their basic info. 

For interns, this would be their name, photo, gender, DOB, where they live, willingness to relocate, will they accept cryptocurrency, etc. Then they need to create a very basic online CV. For many, this just includes adding their tertiary education information. There is also the option for them to add work experience, a portfolio, honours awards and a list of proficiencies or skills.  

Once the interns have completed 80% of their profile, we approve their account, add them to the marketplace and they can start applying for internships. 

For employers, it’s much the same. They create their free accounts and add their company logo, description, location etc. (takes five minutes). They then load their internship opportunities and open themselves up for grads to start applying. We charge a flat fee for every intern hired. Good hiring decisions are made, no bank is broken and everyone is happy.

Funds generated from the Trusted Interns platform are reinvested into the development and roll-out of other career progression offerings which include the job preparation workshops, mentorship programmes and The Bursary Lottery.

R5m in bursaries available from Bursary Lottery

The cool part is that companies are encouraged to be proactive and not to sit and wait for grads to apply. We are trusting the concept of transparency and allowing them to view all graduate profiles and if they like what they see, to reach out and invite them to engage. 

What have been the driving factors behind its creation?

The frustration of not being able to deliver on our clients’ demand for interns; the lack of greater purpose associated with only assisting senior talent get better jobs; the realisation of how valuable an intern with no experience can be in a business; and the reality of how bad the youth unemployment situation is.

Our mission has always been to add value across the entire career progression lifecycle; this is just the first opportunity we’ve grabbed to do so for a much greater pool of talent and a much stronger focus on using technology. 

What are some of the challenges you've faced getting started and how did you overcome them? 

This is our first attempt at solving the problem - it’s a minimum viable product (MVP). As a result, we’re facing new challenges every day, but to date, the biggest challenge has been educating grads that the platform exists and then getting the ones who sign up to complete their profiles. We’ll only approve a profile once they’ve completed at least 80% of it. This ensures that employers can view a detailed picture of the graduate before shortlisting them or inviting them for an interview.

We’re educating the students about the platform by delivering talks and soft-skills workshops at the colleges, and we’re doing collaborative social media campaigns with the likes of Job Advice SA, I Need Someone Who… (jobs) and RecruitSharper. 

To solve the issue of grads not completing their accounts, we’ve introduced Ted the Bot on the website (a chatbot that helps students along the process) and we also have a human online (almost) all day to help out. We’ve implemented in-journey ‘instruction’ messages and have made boatloads of minor UX fixes to improve the experience. Baby steps. There’s still so much we can do. 

What has been the initial reaction to the initiative?

Incredibly positive - that’s what keeps us going. We’re hearing daily that this is something that South Africa so desperately needs, how people wished they had this when they were graduating, how the grads are so happy to finally have a single place to view internships and how we’re providing some of the best grad options to clients, despite them undergoing their own recruitment efforts.

People from the industry have also reached out to say 'how can we get involved and help?' which is super encouraging.

What’s at the top of your wish list for Trusted Interns?

The short answer? That we are disciplined, smart and lucky enough to take off to the moon before hitting the end of the runway. 

More seriously, I’m confident that we can contribute greatly to solving the issues of youth unemployment, so that’s not my wish. What we need is the right team with the right tech so that what we build is scalable and sustainable. I think we’ve proven the concept. The grads dig it and the beta clients are loving it; now we need to iterate and improve rapidly enough to keep up with the demand and our roadmap. 

To do this properly, in a reasonable amount of time, you need a great team of partners, contributors and collaborators. We’re grateful to everyone that has supported us on this journey thus far and hope to meet and engage with more forward-thinking individuals and organisations that are happy to help us along the way. 

Where do you see the platform in five years?

We’ll be a tech-based but human-driven ecosystem that contributes to greater employability across the whole value chain. At the moment, we’re only working with graduates who hold a post-matric qualification, but we’re mindful that it all starts in the primary and secondary education phases. 

In order to ensure that the youth of our country are employed 10 - 20 years from now, we need to go to the root of the problem and build up the pipelines of talent for future businesses. This goes far beyond graduate recruitment. It’s raw education, unique skills development, mentoring, coaching, incubation programs, and and and... It’s a long road and we look forward to journeying along it.
 

Australian top 50 technology companies of 2018

The 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia Awards have led the way through innovation, delivering more than $1.5 billion to the economy, capturing global attention.

The list shows the way companies are disrupting the way we buy insurance, food, cosmetics, mountain bikes and real estate, as well as the way we recruit, hire and promote women in the work place.

The top 3 companies were 

Afterpay topping the list with average revenue growth of 8,134 per cent over the last three years.

Founded by young Sydney entrepreneurs Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen, Afterpay launched its reverse lay-by model in 2014, changing the way people pay for shopping and exporting the platform to thousands of retailers and millions of customers across the globe.

Mate Communicate was placed second with 3,703 per cent growth, 

Mate is an NBN internet service provider with its ‘backyard’ call centre and community first approach.

and 

Superloop came in third with an increase of 1,860 per cent.

Superloop is an internet service provider offering cutting edge connectivity solutions in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. It has built secure, world class networks that telecommunications, media and financial institutions depend on.

Rounding off the top 10 was 

• Vamp (4 - 1,285 per cent); 
• Zip (5 - 1,245 per cent); 
• Swift Networks (6 - 1,211 per cent); 
• Koala (7 - 1,022 per cent); 
• PEXA (8 - 757 per cent); 
• Truck Dealers Australia (9 - 685 per cent) and 
• Megaport (10 - 637 per cent).

Other notable winners included 

• Cevo (14 - 461 per cent); 
• Adactin (16 - 403 per cent); 
• Prospa (20 - 308 per cent) and 
• Araza (28 - 200 per cent), alongside 
• Skyfii (32 - 164 per cent); 
• Idea 11 (36 - 137 per cent); 
• Over the Wire (40 - 127 per cent) and 
• Venn IT Solutions (43 - 114 per cent).

Barhead Solutions was named the 2018 Rising Star.

Delloitte’s Josh Tanchel noted that companies like Afterpay, Zip, Prospa and MoneyMe are genuine success stories for Australia and reminders of how fresh thinking fintechs are fundamentally changing the ways we pay for goods and manage our finances.

He went on to say that a key to their success was a customer focus and a ‘profit for purpose philosophy’.

Interesting Stats 

9 female founders made the list and 25pc of the top 50 companies were listed, 

The top 50 came from the following sectors:-

• 24 per cent fintech (including insurance); 
• 22 per cent software; 
• 20 per cent IT and communications; 
• 18 per cent online; 
• 14 per cent digital agency and 
• 2 per cent medical.

From a State perspective 

• NSW 27
• Victoria 11 
• Queensland 10 and 
• Western Australia (2), 

The next 12 months growth is expected to come from 

• fintech 
• AI development, in 
• 5G telecommunications and 
• implementation of cloud-based business systems

It’s fantastic to see that the collaboration of Universities, Government and Corporates, and the maturity of the Venture Capital community with the support of the major Superannuation fund’s, is providing the opportunities for this amazing innovation to happen, allowing Australia to continue to punch above its weight in this exciting evolution of change . 

Best

Ivan Kaye 

Ps feel free to download my business card https://members.referron.com/bsivc. 

Is consistency key?

19th-century philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, 

"Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." 

Bezos apparently agrees that consistency is overrated.

Bezos -

 “the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking," 

That willingness to consider new information goes hand in hand with a willingness to admit your old way of thinking was flawed. 

In other words, to be super smart you have to change your mind a lot. 

Do you agree? 

Blitzscaling Microsoft, PayPal and Linkedin

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Greylock Partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman share lessons learned from scaling Microsoft, LinkedIn and PayPal.

Blitzscaling is the strategy that leading entrepreneurs have implemented to build strong, enduring companies. The techniques allow for startups and incumbents across any industry to scale at rapid rates and outdistance the competition.

This episode of Greymatter is a discussion from Greylock’s Blitzscaling Dinner with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman. The two visionaries discuss the importance of consistency when scaling company culture, tactics to push forward new strategies with your board of directors, and steps to mitigate the unintended risks of blitzscaling.

Greylock’s invite-only event hosted CEOs, company founders and top CXOs to discuss the impact of blitzscaling across today’s leading companies and ways that Microsoft is applying these techniques as an established company. Below are key takeaways and quotes from the discussion.

The themes of this episode are covered in Reid Hoffman and co-author Chris Yeh’s new book, Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. 

Blitzscaling Company Culture

Consistency is key to building a great company culture. Building or renewing company culture is not a one time transformation, but a continuous process led by leadership. To set precedence, founders should figure out company values in the beginning and live those values over the lifetime of the company. Over time, employees will know what the company stands for and attract new hires who would naturally fit in with your environment.

There’s not a single meeting at Microsoft that I don’t somehow manage to go to our mission and our culture. And I’ve done it now close to five years. I am so disciplined about it because, that is my unit of scale. The day I stop doing it, the entire motion will fall apart. Consistency was one of the biggest things that you underestimate. You’d keep repeating and you think “God I’ve said this, I should change it a little, make it a little more novel and interesting.’ Don’t.-  Satya Nadella

Blitzscaling With Your Board of Directors

The board of directors will understandably be cautious when you introduce a new blitzscaling strategy which tends to involve some risks. To ease fears and push forward your agenda, founders can implement three techniques: design an evaluation framework that enables the board to track performance, add a board member who believes in the new strategy and can help push forward your effort, and invest in board education. New strategies and new technologies can be difficult to understand. Founders should set up board training sessions to provide further insight and explain why specific risks are worth taking.

One of the things that at least I’ve realized is what’s the framework for (the board of directors) to evaluate me and my management team on the judgment we’re passing. And there quite honestly this is where being transparent, being super intellectually honest is the most helpful thing in high risk businesses like ours. I’ve learned the most important thing is- don’t think that they’re passing judgment on the strategy, they’re passing judgment on your judgment of strategy.-  Satya Nadella

There are also two other techniques. One is, a board has a number of people, add someone who’s the catalyst to the board. Have that be an explicit conversation with them about, “Look, I think this needs to be going this way, do you buy in?” And then in some cases, I think one of the things that’s very useful to do is to really invest in some board education. They need to understand this. And say, “Look, in order to do this, we need to set up a one day, two day training thing and you need to come for it in order to do it”, and that’s a big cost and a big play. But sometimes that’s the only thing that actually works. — Reid Hoffman

Responsible Blitzscaling

Unintended consequences can happen as organizations rapidly scale. It’s the founder’s ethical responsibility to consider the negative impacts each decision may have the company or product has on customers and society. To maintain safety of customers, founder should have build in processes early on that are meant to mitigate unintended consequences. To enhance company trust, founders should implement safety and ethical regulations that are agile to allow for innovation over time.

I’ve come to realize is, day one, while you’re building that product or service that obviously needs all the scale, you would be better served to construct even in its core business model and in the unit of scale, a way to deal with the unintended consequence. So the more you have thought through what are the unintended consequences that you will be unleashed when you are at scale day one. — Satya Nadella

There’s a way to propose a lightweight set of regulatory frameworks that enhance trust, still create the maneuverability for innovation, and aren’t trying to just do what people classically think of companies. — Reid Hoffman

---

In 2016, Reid and Chris stress-tested the ideas of in blitzscaling by teaching the class CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling at Stanford University with the help of their friends (and fellow Stanford alumni) Allen Blue and John Lilly. To learn even more about the strategy behind blitzscaling from guests including Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Gixo CEO Selina Tobaccowala and many more, you can check out the recordings from the class here.