Ian Miles Cheong
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Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: "The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo." We all know Elon is relentless about quality. As Marc puts it: "Do you want the best car in the world or not, right? Like that's Elon's mentality... And it's working very well." But at a recent event, Elon took this mindset to a completely different level. He dropped a perspective so jarring that Marc initially thought it was a joke. Elon’s thesis? "You shouldn't even have to have your name on the product. It's just obvious. Everybody knows." The logic is brutal but simple. If you build the undeniable, undisputed best thing in the world, everybody uses it. And because everybody uses it, you don't need to slap your branding all over it to prove it's yours. Think about that. We spend endless hours agonizing over marketing, tweaking brand colors, and putting our logos on every square inch of what we build. But the ultimate flex isn't a flashy logo. The ultimate flex is building something so undeniably brilliant that its mere existence is the brand.
Ian Miles Cheong29,976,106 views • 6 months ago
Maduro gives direct orders to his security forces, instructing them to keep Elon Musk out at all costs. The donkey dictator is delusional enough to think that Elon is going to personally show up and give him a thrashing. He is afraid. How are these goons going to stop space lasers?
Ian Miles Cheong92,397,829 views • 2 years ago
Marc Andreessen highlights why the people who work for Elon Musk echo the exact same sentiment as those who worked for Steve Jobs. Even after difficult interactions or a sudden departure, they inevitably report that they did the best work of their entire lives because they were pushed to their absolute limits. What drives this intense environment is a demand for truth-seeking at all costs. People who criticize Elon often miss this fundamental trait. He genuinely wants to know the ground truth and has zero tolerance for anything else. When confronting bad news, he is absolutely ruthless and relentless in making sure he understands exactly what is actually going on. This level of radical transparency is shockingly rare in the business world. The typical startup founder operates on forced optimism, constantly putting on a brave face, telling everyone to have faith, and promising that everything will be great just to keep talent from leaving. Elon completely flips that standard script. He operates with pure urgency by simply telling the unfiltered truth, even when that truth is that the company will go bankrupt and die if they fail. In almost any other corporate environment, that level of blunt, existential dread would cause the talent pool to immediately bleed out. But for the teams working under him, that brutal honesty acts as the ultimate catalyst. It strips away the corporate fluff and forces them to rise to the occasion, leaving them with the undeniable realization that, much like the engineers who built the first iPhone, they just completed the greatest work of their careers.
Ian Miles Cheong12,419,371 views • 6 months ago
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Ilhan Omar is very upset about how Trump is dismantling USAID, which she claims makes him a "dictator." "It is really, really a sad day in America... We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like." Saving money by not spending it on making the world a worse place is dictatorship?
Ian Miles44,060,178 views • 1 year ago
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A man at an AMC theater in Arizona’s Valley of the Sun unzipped in the middle of a movie and pissed on a child sitting nearby. The crowd dragged him out of his seat and beat him until he couldn’t stand. And that is how you fix this culture. Immediate consequences.
Ian Miles Cheong18,768,655 views • 1 year ago
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Nicolae Miu was looking for his phone when he ran into a group of young people who proceeded to harass and assault him, pushing him to the ground and punching him. He pulled a pocketknife he used for cutting rope while tubing and cut five of them, one of whom didn’t survive. He’s now on trial, and argues that his actions were in self-defense. Source: CBS News
Ian Miles Cheong42,309,410 views • 2 years ago
The Brooklyn Bridge boat accident is worse than anyone thinks.
Ian Miles Cheong19,639,455 views • 1 year ago