Dayo

it’s a mind thing

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

no way 😭

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

This failed pop star bought companies for one franc and became a billionaire.

The French Takeover King

[a16z @a16z]

You can just do things.

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

Ken Griffin’s favorite book:

Winners play with total commitment and fierce execution. They chase decisive victory.

Amazing book & episode!

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

This one page changed my life.

42 years ago today, it convinced my parents I shouldn't go back to college.

I started by upgrading PCs from a dorm room.

Today @Dell is helping build the infrastructure that powers AI, from the edge to some of the world's largest AI factories.

You never know which small decision will change everything.

Keep building🚀🙏 #PlayNiceButWin

[Ultra Texan James @jdselman]

@MichaelDell @Dell From your sales brochure.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

@jdselman @Dell This is really what it looked like

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

😭😭😭😭

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Charlie Munger’s three Ls is undefeated

[Bryan Tegomoh, MD, MPH @BryanTegomoh]

@DennysDiner @JensenHuang @nvidia Never underestimate someone with this track record

[Dayo @acey_soreal]

@JensenHuang On X @nvidia

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Rockefeller on seizing opportunity now:

[Fireside Tapes @firesidetapes]

Before Uber made him a billionaire, Travis Kalanick spent four years drawing no salary and living at his mother's house to keep a startup alive. He sold it for $19 million, cleared $3 million of his own, and to this day calls it the happiest day of his life.

This is him on the company almost no one remembers, and why that one small win still outweighs everything he has built since.

He started Red Swoosh in 2001, a file-sharing idea he describes as BitTorrent meets Akamai, before BitTorrent existed. By his own account it should never have survived.

"That company wasn't meant to be and I willed it into being."

For the first four years he paid himself nothing and moved back in with his mom.

"The first 4 years, no salary. Lived at mom's."

When Akamai finally bought it, the number that changed his life was not the kind that makes headlines today.

"I sold it to Akamai for, like, I think it was like 19 million bucks. And probably to this day is still the happiest day of my life."

He would go on to build Uber, worth a hundred times more. He still measures the best day of his life by the company that almost didn't make it.

Bookmark & watch ↓

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick on the importance of telling a story through every detail of a restaurant:

“We often compare it to making a movie.”

“Right here in the place we're sitting, we're telling a story of American fine dining, seen through our lens, while paying homage to the time period the building was built in and all the history that had happened before it.”

“We create a menu and a service style and uniforms and music and artwork and all the different things that go into creating hospitality spaces but are often overlooked. We make sure that entire story makes sense.”

“In my business, the only thing that's even relevant is the most important thing: are they coming back?”

“Anywhere we would open, everyone's going to come and try a new restaurant. All that matters is that a customer's going to come back.”

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Major Food Group founder Jeff Zalaznick quit his job in investment banking to work an entry level job in a hotel.

It was the best decision of his life:

“Tell him that I'm here, that I'm an investment banker at JP Morgan, and that I will take any job in this hotel that he will give me.

I sat there waiting. The woman thinks I'm crazy. Finally he says "Sure I'll see him.”

And so I go into the office and he says “Can I have your resume?”

I said "I don't have a resume.”

He said "What do you mean you don't have a resume?”

I said "Listen I'm just going to lay this out on the table. I'm an investment banker at JP Morgan and you must know what you have to go through to study and train, to even get a job like that. And I have a feeling that this is the first time that a JP Morgan investment banker has ever walked through your doors and said they will take any job in your hotel because I want to learn this business.”

“I'm willing to come here and take whatever pay cut I need to because I want to get in the door.”

He thinks I'm out of my f*cking mind.

I get up and I leave and I remember walking back to work. I remember calling someone and saying "I don't think that went so well but we'll see what happens.”

The next day my phone rings and it's the head of HR at Mandarin Oriental and he says "Hey it was nice meeting you yesterday. We just had the head of guest relations quit. Do you want to take that job?”

So I ended up leaving and going to work at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It ended up being an ideal starting point for me because I handled our most important guests no matter what they were doing.

So I got to very quickly learn how to run a hotel at the highest level and the food and beverage outlets that were there that I got a chance to work in.”

[j @blondfjr]

This is acc the whole point of life

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Never give up

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Herbert Wigwe narrates the story of his worst day in his career as Access Bank CEO.

It was a $35m (over N4.4b) loan facility that owed by African Petroleum (AP) Plc that became non-performing in 2009.

Femi Otedola was the chairman of AP Plc at that time.

Herbert was under severe pain that he got hospitalized.

If they didn't manage this situation, they could become completely bankrupt.

Herbert and Aig had to sell all their assets through fire sale to maintain their reputation. The process took ten days.

[A. @ZeroRequiem__]

Nobody is happier than Adidas right now.

[Victor Cardenas Codriansky @victorcardenas]

Always be closing, even when you run a $200b company.

Mad respect to Ana!