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Athena

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Athena

@athenago

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Joined October 2021

Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
Elon found the secret to dominate every field: - Tesla is worth more than the top 15 car companies combined - SpaceX launched 6 times more rockets than NASA - xAI built the world's largest AI supercomputer (100K GPU) Marc Andreessen broke down how Elon wins EVERY SINGLE TIME 🧵
Athena
@athenago
Feb 17, 2025
In 1984, Haier was on the verge of bankruptcy. With over 600 employees, they barely produced 80 refrigerators monthly. Then their new CEO found 76 defective fridges. What he did next erased over $190,000 in debt and made Haier a $56.57 BILLION empire. Here's the story: 🧵
Athena
@athenago
Feb 21, 2025
Jeff Bezos never ran a corporate meeting. Instead, he followed his 2–pizza-rule and built a $2.4 TRILLION empire selling anything he wants. How? A leadership strategy so effective, Walmart and Target now use it. Here’s his genius framework for running any business you want:
Athena
@athenago
May 19, 2025
Jordan, Kobe, and Shaq wouldn’t have become champions without this guy. As a coach, he won the most NBA championships in history. Here are the 5 principles that turned Phil into the leader he was:
Athena
@athenago
May 21, 2025
Warren Buffett touted Henry Singleton as his greatest mentor: A chess master who turned $450K into $3.5B while running 130+ companies at a time. How did he do it? By mastering the same art that made Buffett the greatest investor alive... 🧵
Athena
@athenago
Jan 28, 2025
In 2014, Apple unleashed $3B to kill Spotify. With endless cash and Taylor Swift on its side, victory was assured. But Spotify had an unbeatable advantage... The "secret weapon" that won a $96 BILLION music war: 🧵
Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
Replying to @athenago
Andreessen was impressed with Musk's operational methods. But even though well known now, no one uses them. Marc says Elon’s approach reminds him of the industrial titans of the late 1800s, like Henry Ford, who tackled problems head-on.
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Athena
@athenago
May 31, 2025
Ritz-Carlton gives minimum-wage employees more spending power than most corporate executives. $2,000 per guest, zero approval needed. Competitors think they are insane. But this gives them 12,400% potential return per employee. Thread
Athena
@athenago
May 28, 2025
Warren Buffett bought shares in a company for $5.75 per share. Forty years later, they were worth $12,000. The CEO who delivered that 2,087x return ran his $19 billion empire with just 36 headquarters employees and one management principle: Extreme delegation 🧵
Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
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Elon walks into a room, identifies the largest bottleneck, and focuses just on that. He solves it within a week, then moves on to the next. What might take another company 3 months, Elon solves in 7 days. And problem-fixing compounds.
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Athena
@athenago
Feb 21, 2025
Replying to @athenago
Bezos believed that if a team couldn’t be fed with 2 pizzas, it was too large. “2-Pizza Teams” operate like mini-startups within Amazon. - They own their projects. - They make decisions independently. - They don’t wait for approval from layers of management.
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Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
Replying to @athenago
At xAI, Elon did something quite peculiar. One day he spent 18 hours at the office, meeting with everyone in 5-minute chunks. That's what his leadership style is all about. Being close to people and the problems they have.
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Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
Replying to @athenago
If you want to lead like Elon: - Identify the bottleneck. - Go straight to the source. - Solve it hands-on until done. - Move on to the next challenge. - Delegate everything that’s not the bottleneck. Focus, fix, flow.
Athena
@athenago
Mar 5, 2025
Replying to @athenago
Bureaucracy makes meetings pile up and progress slow. Elon goes straight to the engineer or lineworker dealing with the problem. "If I’m up with a problem I can’t solve, Elon will show up. He’ll sit with me overnight, at the keyboard or on the line, until we solve it together."