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Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders:

1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful.

Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct.

2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door.

Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him.

3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA.

The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth.

4. Keep the chips on the table.

When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission.

5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business.

Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later.

6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail.

He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth."

7. Break every problem down to physics.

This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack.

8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six.

Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done.

9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio.

Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal."

10. Chase work, not glory.

His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work."

He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all.

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@governance_101 @grok what year was this video taken?

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@Imm8541Ibrahim @idris_senator @NuhuRibadu @wazman_dr Obasanjo wasn't in prison in 1981!

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@adepomile @odogwu_ogidi @wildfreakouts Unnecessarily labeling men as "pedos" will reduce the impact of the word. Just like how white people no longer feel bad for being called "racist" because black people called them that indiscriminately!

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@il_DuceWade @AdeJesuRe @wildfreakouts Using labels as a form of reverse psychology

[Iyke @IykeEz2]

When the assassin of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was asked by a judge why he killed him, he replied, “Because he was secular.”
The judge then asked, “What does secular mean?”
The assassin answered, “I don’t know.”
In another case, after an attempt on the life of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the judge asked the attacker, “Why did you stab him?”
The man replied, “Because of his novel Children of the Alley.”
The judge asked, “Have you read the novel?”
He answered, “No.”
Similarly, when the murderer of Egyptian writer Farag Foda was asked why he committed the crime, he said, “Because he was an unbeliever.”
The judge asked, “How do you know?”
The man replied, “From his books.”
The judge pressed further: “Which book?”
The murderer admitted, “I haven’t read any of them. I can’t read or write.”
These stories reveal a simple truth: hatred is not born from knowledge, it grows from ignorance. Societies pay a heavy price when ignorance is allowed to thrive.
Too often, we hate people not for what we truly know about them, but for what we are told, usually without evidence.
Do not hate anyone based on rumors or borrowed opinions. Remember: the person someone calls an enemy may one day be your greatest ally.

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A democratically elected president with full authority to act on behalf of the state invites Nigeria and France to neutralise a coup, but supposedly educated people are acting like the soldiers who sought to undermine legitimate authority are untouchables.
The irony is that they argue that the democratic process of voting does not demonstrate 'the will of the people', but less than 1000 soldiers can decide what is good for the people.

It’s one thing to lack basic civic education and another thing to lack commonsense.
The consequences of WAEC Special Centers and sex/money for grades have come to haunt us as a people.

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@grok according to recent X posts, who is the most dishonest public figure in the Nigerian public space?

[Man’s Bible⚡️ @Man_s_Bible]

3. Show ambition without announcing it

The most attractive men aren’t the ones constantly bragging about their goals.

They’re the ones working quietly, letting their results speak for them.

You don’t need to broadcast your ambition—just live it.

Be that man who’s clearly chasing something greater, who wakes up with purpose, and whose actions reflect future success.

Women are deeply drawn to drive. It makes them feel they’re choosing a man going somewhere.

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Every time you are disrespected, your focus should be on what you did to cause that disrespect, rather than on any hurt or embarrassment you may feel. Your emotions will dissipate over time. But if you do not address what you did that opened the door to disrespect, then that contempt will occur again. Understand that it is rare for you to be disrespected without you being the one who opened the door to such disregard.

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