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Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt on the data strategy behind the next hundred billion dollar companies: He explains that he evaluates startup ideas by looking at 5-year growth trajectories and asking whether there's a more scalable strategy available. Take a founder building an app they want to charge $10...

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Eric Schmidt on how he uses 5-year plans to predict if a startup can become a $100 billion company “If you went to business school, you would’ve been taught: build a great product, organize a sales force, charge a fair price, make the customer happy.” But, as the former CEO of Google explains, that strategy is insufficiently scalable in the Internet era: “It’ll produce a reasonable business, but it’s not going to produce a huge business. It’s just too hard to hire all of those salespeople, work with every customer, and so forth. You have to have a more clever strategy.” Eric continues: “All of the really big companies have invented a new way to access information or a new way to do something [and didn’t require a large salesforce].” Eric argues that lots of the startup ideas he hears are good, but not good enough. He tells these founders to do a plan over the next five years and map your growth rate. Then try to figure out what a more scalable strategy might be. For example, if you’re building an app that you want to charge $10 for, Eric would ask: “Why can’t you give the app away for free and then upsell the users?” Another way to use a five-year plan to determine if your company can be a $100 billion company is to ask yourself what the big platforms will be five years from now and make sure your company is aligned with those platforms. In this interview from 2016, he predicts Android, iOS, and machine learning are the platforms he’d want to be aligned with over the next five years. Video source: Startup Grind (2016)

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains how he uses 5-year plans to predict if a startup can become a $100B+ company “If you went to business school, you would’ve been taught: build a great product, organize a sales force, charge a fair price, make the customer happy.” But Eric explains that strategy is insufficiently scalable in the Internet era. “It’ll produce a reasonable business, but it’s not going to produce a huge business. It’s just too hard to hire all of those salespeople, work with every customer, and so forth. You have to have a more clever strategy.” He continues: “All of the really big companies have invented a new way to access information or a new way to do something that didn’t require [a large salesforce].” Eric argues that lots of the startup ideas he hears are good, but not good enough. He tells these founders to create a 5-year plan and map their growth rate. Then try to figure out what a more scalable strategy might be. For example, if you’re building an app that you want to charge $10 for, Eric asks: “Why can’t you give the app away for free and then upsell the users?" This is similar to the advice of Peter Thiel who famously asks founders: “How can you achieve your 10 year plan in the next 6 months?” Thinking big and optimizing for scalability is one key factor that separates the ultra successful companies from the rest. Another way to use a five-year plan to determine if your company can be a $100B+ company is to ask yourself what the big platforms will be five years from now and make sure your company is aligned with those platforms. In this interview from 2016 and he predicted that Android, iOS, and machine learning would be the dominant platforms of the next five years.

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