Jed Ondiko

Fixing My Holy Grail as a SuperEntrepreneur. 8 to 5 part time banker. King's JedPorte

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once

No other CEO on Earth does this:

1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.

2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.

3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.

4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.

5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.

6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.

7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

ELON MUSK:
“We’re going to have universal high income.
We’ll basically just issue money to people."

"AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans."

"Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future."

"AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.”

ME:
“So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?”

ELON:
“Yeah, pretty much.”

[Vincent Ogutu @VinceOgutu]

@tomwansa CEO of @KENIAupdates talking about the power of Entrepreneurial Leadership and the power of Institutional ambition as he launches @StrathU's Intellectual Property & Commercialisation Policy. Be bold...be unambiguous, be specific...and be rewarding.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

🚨 Anthropic's own team just showed how to actually use Claude Code properly.

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[Jed Ondiko @JEDONDIKO]

@TugumeNelsonO I’m super proud of you. You indeed inspire Africa literally. Keep on building brother.

[Dr. Tugume Nelson O @TugumeNelsonO]

Happy to unveil our planned $5.3B smart Coffee City—that will blend coffee value addition, coffee tourism, coffee currency, coffee stock exchange, artificial intelligence & blockchain technology. Africa, join us in creating a million jobs and new Africa’s economic dispensation

[Dr. Tugume Nelson O @TugumeNelsonO]

Happy to unveil our planned $5.3B smart Coffee City—that will blend coffee value addition, coffee tourism, coffee currency, coffee stock exchange, artificial intelligence & blockchain technology. Africa, join us in creating a million jobs and new Africa’s economic dispensation

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Watching students successfully design earthquake-resistant buildings is a wonderful reminder of the importance of learning math and engineering to improve quality of life.

[Hon.Moses Kuria,HSC @HonMoses_Kuria]

This morning I joined Embu Governor @CecilyMbarire and the CEO of Digital Health Authority Eng Anthony Lenaiyara for a consultative meeting with County Health Practioners ahead of next week's Mass Registration of SHA Members and full Digitisation of all the 109 Hospitals in Embu County, the second County to move to 100% paperless Health delivery after Mombasa County

[Hon.Moses Kuria,HSC @HonMoses_Kuria]

Later this afternoon I held a meeting with leaders from Boda Boda Associations in all 20 wards in Embu County representing over 10,000 riders. The riders will have 50% of their Taifacare premiums paid for by the Embu County Government under the AFYABODA NA KARINDA programme of @CecilyMbarire while the balance will be deducted from their mobile money automatically on small daily instalments. The riders will n return assist in registering the other Embu Citizens for Taifa Care alongside Community Health Promoters

[Jed Ondiko @JEDONDIKO]

@teshmbaabu Bro, this is great my G.

[Tesh Mbaabu ™ @teshmbaabu]

Thrilled to share that we have secured a $1.2M Pre-Seed Round! 🌟

The last one year of rebuilding has been absolutely humbling, but very exciting and full of promise. And yet again, this is just the beginning. We have major plans in store for businesses in Africa and beyond, as we empower them to unlock more revenue through the fastest growing commerce channel, social media.

Partnering with @Mesongo, @markkiarie_ and @kuriak__ to build @chpter_co has been phenomenal, and we are elated to welcome more strategic partners on board.

A big shout out to the PANI team for your support from day 1, and a huge thank you to our incredible investors at Plesion Capital, Renew Capital, @Techstars, @norrsken_org and @vikventures for believing in our vision and joining us on this journey.

To our amazing team, customers, partners and cheerleaders – your support has been very crucial in reaching this milestone. Stay tuned for more exciting developments as we move forward! 🚀

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[Pearls @MissPearls]

EndSARS 2.0

These unarmed protesters were waving the Kenyan National flag, yet they were shot live ammunitions on order of President Ruto!

[EDDIE CHENG @ecomEddie]

James Clear's work will change your life forever.

His work takes 100s of hours to read. I've gone through it so you don't have to.

12 ideas to upgrade your habits:

[Farhan @mhdfaran]

You + Laptop + Wifi + AI = 🔥

I made my first dollar online with ChatGPT and Canva

Here's how I did it:

[EDDIE CHENG @ecomEddie]

I'm 33.

When I was young, I wasted years drinking, smoking, and being a degenerate.

Then I discovered Steven Bartlett, and he changed my life forever.

7 lessons from Britain's youngest self-made millionaire ($2 million worth of advice in 2 minutes):

[EDDIE CHENG @ecomEddie]

I’m obsessed with learning how to learn.

So, I spent 100+ hours studying how Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Naval Ravikant absorb information.

Here’s what I found on becoming a learning machine:

[Modest Mitkus @ModestMitkus]

I run a $50,000/month digital product business.

I have 0 employees.

Here are 7 tools I use every day:

[Rasel Hosen @details_with_ai]

Canva is now available on ChatGPT.

This update makes graphic design 10x easier.

Here's how to use Canva and ChatGPT to generate beautiful visuals in seconds:

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