Today I learnt that the first McDonaldโs opened on this day in 1940.
Whatโs fascinating isnโt just that it became huge.
Itโs HOW.
McDonaldโs didnโt 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.
๐จ๐ณ 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 ๐ณ