Today I learnt that the first McDonald’s opened on this day in 1940.
What’s fascinating isn’t just that it became huge.
It’s HOW.
McDonald’s didn’t invent the hamburger.
It mastered:
- systems,
- consistency,
- speed,
- scale,
- and real estate.
Today:
- it serves ~69 million people daily,
- sells roughly 75 burgers every second.
One of the greatest business lessons ever might simply be this:
Small improvements, repeated consistently at scale, become massive over time.
🇨🇳 China just switched on the world's largest offshore solar farm
2.3 million solar panels. 2,934 steel platforms. 11,736 piles driven into the ocean floor. Built to survive force-11 gales and sea ice.
It sits 5 miles off the coast and powers 2.67 million people.
Oh, and they're also farming fish underneath it 😳