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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah
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A coach: Someone with the tools and know-how to help you sharpen what is at play. They are usually certified.
A mentor: A senior person who has walked a similar path to yours.
A sponsor: A senior person who mentions your name in places you cannot access. Sponsors choose you because you are AUTHENTIC AND DEPENDABLE. You will not stain their white because their name carries weigh
🚨 FORMER TESLA PRESIDENT ADMITS ELON USED THE DOMINO’S PIZZA APP TO REINVENT HOW PEOPLE BUY CARS — AND THE STORY IS BLOWING PEOPLE’S MINDS
Former Tesla president Jon McNeill is going viral after revealing the bizarre moment Elon Musk pulled up the Domino’s pizza app during a meeting… because Tesla customers needed 64 CLICKS just to buy a car online.
Elon’s reaction?
“How many taps does it take to get a pizza?”
Answer:
• 10 taps
Buying a Tesla at the time?
• 64 clicks
• endless loan documents
• nonstop forms
• massive friction
Elon became obsessed with stripping the process down after realizing most of the paperwork wasn’t even legally required.
So Tesla started going bank-to-bank asking:
Why does buying a car need to feel harder than ordering dinner?
Most banks reportedly refused to cooperate.
Then one Midwest bank CEO finally agreed to test a radically simplified system… and Tesla allegedly eliminated around 40 clicks from the process almost overnight.
Now people online are saying this perfectly explains why Tesla disrupted the entire auto industry while traditional dealerships kept drowning customers in paperwork, waiting rooms, and sales tactics.
Did Tesla accidentally expose how outdated the entire car dealership model really was?
📹: kencoleman
My first interaction with Olam was when they were in the agricultural inputs business in the early 90s, supplying Okomu Plc with chemicals. They were hustling like everyone else and perfected their business.
None of the similar Nigerian-run businesses survived. They survived, pivoted, and scaled. Moving their HQ was instrumental to this growth. It is the same reason I left Nigeria in 2008/2009. I didn't learn about pivoting from services back to products until 2013.
The same thing we were building in 2014 is what is making OPay go public in 2026. We have no excuses; we didn't take it as seriously as the Chinese.
I keep hearing that they had a lot of funding, and that is how big business is typically built. They raise a lot of money for growth. They hired the right corporate development and finance people to make it possible.
I get very upset when the predominant media narrative of African entrepreneurship is about the personalities involved instead of the business model. Nobody talks about the founder of Olam today but the $40B per annum business that they built as a company. Nobody also talks about the CEO or the founders of Opay. This is what we must learn to unlearn.