Eric Rapaport

Bilingual entrepreneur sharing stories, lessons & conversations with inspiring people. Blending Russian & English perspectives on business & life.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

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[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

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.

[Kevin Rose @kevinrose]

@mattaitken loving trigger!

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

От сердца и души - thank you every one of of the 101 of you so far, who has decided to subscribe and to support this channel. Мне очень приятно чувствовать эту поддержку от вас!

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

My next guest UFC Heavyweight Championship Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski who I spent several years working with & traveling the world. I’d like to have him share what he is up to now!
https://t.co/MRSczcsLwx
#ufc #arlovski #andreiarlovski #thepitbull

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

Talking finance with Nihar Sait, on YouTube soon!

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

Going live on my YouTube channel in 15 minutes:

https://t.co/tJhk3W0wAJ

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Good luck!!!!

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

RT @naval: Pay the world whatever it takes to leave you alone to think. 🤔

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Pod up!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@pmarca 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This letter about OpenAI was just sent to me.

These seem like concerns worth investigating.

https://t.co/hnAepyfLE6

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

DOJ needs to sue themselves!

[@jason @Jason]

Quarter million big-tech layoffs during the “white-collar recession”

Notice the “double dip” (June, November?)… prepare for the triple dip in feb & march — which will eclipse the previous two peaks

Bouncing along the bottom is a brutal process… 🎢

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

GPT4 will be out soon and will probably cause a similar economic shock to one from Covid. Instant distribution with nearly instant adoption and nearly instant productivity increase for hundreds of millions of knowledge workers. Brace yourselves, 2023 is coming

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

gm 🌅

e103!

-- some bestie updates
-- ligma/johnson situation
-- tech layoffs surge
-- $AAPL & $AMZN freeze hiring
-- midterm elections preview
-- science corner: $META's AlphaFold competitor

🔊: https://t.co/7pK00tYSSC
📺: https://t.co/DbjzCcDhVj

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Editing tweets is finally happening. Some details:

⚫️ It’s in beta now for Twitter Blue subs, rolling out
⚫️ There’s a 30-minute window, in which you can edit a few times
⚫️ Edit history is shown, including the engagement for each version of the tweet

I love this.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

It’s on. #RecallGavinNewsom

https://t.co/r8Cwd4szrn

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

@JuJoDi @jasonfried @isterin @dhh @rjs Can you elaborate on how you moved from Jira to Basecamp?

[Eric Rapaport @ericrapaport]

@helpmeadidas had a horrible experience at your Melrose store. It’s been over 4 days since I requested a manager 24-48 hour call back. Can you help?