Learning from the Masters: How America’s Highest Growth Companies Executed to Achieve Success

I moderated an awesome panel discussion on April 13, 2006 at the Churchill Club event held at the Palo Alto Hills Country Club. Did you know that Staples and Network Appliance were both on the 6-year trajectory to $1 billion revenue? Did you know that P&G looks to import over half of its innovation from outside? One board member from the Churchill Club told me it was one of the best events he had ever attended. Go to the link below to order the CD from the event.

Speakers:
Tom Stemberg, Venture Partner, Highland Capital Partners; Founder & former CEO/Chairman, Staples
Dan Warmenhoven, CEO, Network Appliance
Jeff Weedman, SVP, External Business Development & Global Licensing, Procter & Gamble

Moderator:
David Thomson, Author, Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth


Only 5% of the companies that IPO achieve $1B in revenue, and those Blueprint companies delivered two-thirds of the market value of all IPO companies.
How do you create or build a company to deliver that kind of rapid growth to $1B? What did they do to be successful and how can you follow in their footsteps? What are the common elements, across industry, that are necessary to succeed?

This discussion is not about one unique company, its innovation or financial returns it achieved. It is about the quantifiable success pattern – independent of economic cycle or industry. This panel brings together founders & CEOs of several Blueprint Companies and investors with the author of “Blueprint to a Billion” to debate the real world applications of these essentials to today’s growth challenges.

>>Order the CD from the Churchill Club

Below is a picture from the event. the four panelists on stage from your left to right are David Thomson, Tom Stemberg, Dan Warmenhoven, and Jeff Weedman.

Thank you Christie Valdez and Avery Lyford from the Churchill Club.

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