Ian Miles
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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 Miles29,972,686 views • 4 months 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 Miles12,417,643 views • 4 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 Miles92,391,536 views • 2 years ago
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 Miles44,059,411 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 Miles18,758,683 views • 11 months ago
Really? You think Dubai is a war zone? Are you retarded.
Ian Miles Cheong6,970,796 views • 5 months ago
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 Miles42,301,621 views • 2 years ago
The Brooklyn Bridge boat accident is worse than anyone thinks.
Ian Miles19,638,201 views • 1 year ago
A crane operator on one of the skyscrapers in Thailand didn’t make it.
Ian Miles21,062,185 views • 1 year ago
Trump gets it. The man actually gets it. This is what a true conservative sounds like. TRUMP: "It takes centuries to build the unique character of each state. But reckless migration policy can change it quickly and permanently. Just like we’ve seen in London, and Paris, and Minneapolis." "If Kamala Harris wins this election, she will flood Pennsylvania cities and towns with illegal migrants from all over the world—and Pennsylvania will not be Pennsylvania any longer." "When I’m president, all migrant flights to Pennsylvania will STOP the moment I take the oath of office. Those who do not belong, will be sent back home. We will end the invasion of small-town Pennsylvania—and we will END the destruction of America."
Ian Miles29,356,829 views • 1 year ago