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Founder Mode

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Sep 7 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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In the 1950s, Soviet MiGs were shredding U.S. fighter pilots.

Then one maverick pilot, John Boyd, invented a system so powerful it flipped the war.

Today, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos all use it to crush slower rivals.

It’s called the OODA Loop: 🧵

OODA = Observe → Orient → Decide → Act

It sounds simple.

But Boyd’s genius wasn’t the steps, it was the speed.

If you cycle through OODA faster than your opponent, you disrupt their process.

They’re still thinking while you’re already acting.

Boyd tested it in air combat.

The F-86 Sabre (American jet) wasn’t faster than the Soviet MiG.

But it won most fights because it had:

Better cockpit visibility (Observe)
Faster hydraulic controls (Act)

American pilots looped faster. And lived.

Boyd realized this applied beyond fighter jets.

Any conflict in business, politics, or sports is a contest of decision cycles.

If you can process reality, adapt, and act quicker…

You force the other side into reaction mode.

That’s when they make mistakes.

Steve Jobs used it relentlessly.

He watched trends (Observe).
Framed them through design obsession (Orient).
Made bold product calls (Decide).
And shipped fast (Act).

Competitors like Microsoft or BlackBerry?

Stuck in longer cycles → crushed.

Elon Musk runs companies the same way.

At SpaceX:

Observe: rocket costs insane
Orient: strip costs to physics (first principles)
Decide: build in-house
Act: launch reusable rockets

NASA took decades. Musk looped in years.

Jeff Bezos made Amazon a master of OODA.

Observe: customer behavior in real time
Orient: relentless “customer obsession”
Decide: roll out experiments
Act: ship → gather feedback → repeat

That’s how Prime, AWS, and Kindle scaled.

John Boyd never built a company.

But his framework powers the greatest ones of our time.

Stop chasing perfect info. Start looping.

Because the faster you cycle OODA, the harder you are to beat.

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