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Harvard Business Review Press
Dave Whorton
Another Way
N/A
2025
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Publisher > Harvard Business Review Press
Author > Dave Whorton
Title > Another Way
Issue > N/A
Year > 2025
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ISBN > 9798892791144
Pages > 227
Genre > Next-Economy
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > Book
Format > .EPUB
Section > eBook
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Published > 2025-05
Release > 2026-05-23
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/another-way-building-companies-that-last-and-last-
and-last-dave-whorton/0188484f3927b525
From the inner sanctum of Silicon Valley and short-term capitalism comes the
story of a VC who lived it, then left it and found a better way to build great
companies. Dave Whorton was John Doerr's associate partner at high-flying
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers during Silicon Valley's big shift, when he
witnessed the VC industry pivot from a proven forty-year playbook of managing
risk to something much more aggressive: "get-big-fast." Don't worry about
profitability. Cash out and find another venture. For a while, Whorton took part
in this whirlwind as he pursued his dream of becoming the next Hewlett or
Packard, starting two companies himself. But soon it all got to be too much.
Whorton recognized that if get-big-fast was the formula for building a great
technology company in the twenty-first century, that just wasn't for him. That
could have been the end of the story, but instead it turned out to be the
beginning of another, deeply inspiring one. Whorton went on a journey to find a
better way to build companies, a way focused on long-term stability and steady
growth, funded through profitability; a way in which leaders were committed to a
purpose beyond personal wealth generation, to putting their people first, and to
setting up their companies to endure. He calls these companies "Evergreen."
Another Way combines Whorton's inspiring story with his Evergreen 7Ps framework,
designed to guide more entrepreneurs and business leaders to follow his path.
Full of revelations, practical advice, and real-world examples of companies
going Evergreen, Another Way is as instructive as it is inspiring at showing
capitalism at its best.
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