Wikipedia makes over $165 million a year without spending money on ads, writers, or investors.

Still, they’ve built the fastest-evolving platform and largest knowledge bank on the planet.

Here’s exactly how they did it: 🧵 The story began in 2001 when Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger had a bold idea:

An online encyclopedia anyone could edit.

At the time, everything was for-profit and access was centralized, so this was a shocking concept.

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 🧵 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.

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: 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.

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: 🧵
He smashed all 76 defective fridges, each worth 4 years of salary, in front of the workers' eyes.

The workers burst into tears as they watched, but it sent the message:

Quality over quantity.

But the theatrics were just the start. What Zhang did next was truly revolutionary...

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: 🧵
Apple was panicking.

It was 2014, and Spotify was on the rise.

Its surprising success threatened Apple's $17.8B music empire.

So the tech giant plotted to destroy the upstart...