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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. He and his two Millennial cofounders wanted me to help turn their growing tech startup into an international giant, as their Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. He eventually headed up the company’s development business before becoming the company’s president in 2013.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. The numbers were grim. has increased from 10% to 18%.