Cloud Surfing: A New Way to Think About Risk, Innovation, Scale, and Success

Acknowledgments

One of the most gratifying and humbling aspects of writing a book is the opportunity to remind yourself of how much you rely on the help of others.

Books begin with ideas, which are incredibly convincing while they reside solely in the author’s head. But ideas only come to life with collaboration. I was very fortunate to have an extraordinary team that helped me to think through the many pieces of this book as well as the long process of bringing them together. If this book, and the ideas it contains, hit a chord with readers it is because of these amazing people.

The idea for Cloud Surfing began over three years ago in conversations with Erika Heilman, prior to her co-founding Bibliomotion. At first the idea seemed much too ...