Most people think global expansion is strategy… but the truth is companies don’t get destroyed by bad strategy — they get destroyed by invisible operational decisions they didn’t know they were making. The only reason Tesla didn’t get burned is because Shan Nair had a repeatable process. → Get the Lighthouse Leadership newsletter + weekly frameworks here Timestamps 0:00 — Introduction 1:30 — Why physics → business logic 7:16 — The Tesla origin moment 9:15 — What companies always get wrong ...
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Most people think global expansion is strategy… but the truth is companies don’t get destroyed by bad strategy — they get destroyed by invisible operational decisions they didn’t know they were making. The only reason Tesla didn’t get burned is because Shan Nair had a repeatable process. → Get the Lighthouse Leadership newsletter + weekly frameworks here Timestamps 0:00 — Introduction 1:30 — Why physics → business logic 7:16 — The Tesla origin moment 9:15 — What companies always get wrong ...
The Keyboard Derby: How Transparency Built the iPhone Keyboard
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19 minutes
1 week ago
The Keyboard Derby: How Transparency Built the iPhone Keyboard
Most people imagine the iPhone keyboard was born from pure genius — a single spark. But in 2005 Apple had no keyboard that worked. If the team couldn’t solve typing on glass, the iPhone would be canceled. Steve Jobs paused nearly every UI effort and forced one rule: show your work — near-daily public demonstrations of prototypes. This episode shows how transparency didn’t kill creativity — it accelerated it. And that story goes back not just to Steve Jobs… but to Galileo. Key Takeaways Transp...
Lighthouse Leadership
Most people think global expansion is strategy… but the truth is companies don’t get destroyed by bad strategy — they get destroyed by invisible operational decisions they didn’t know they were making. The only reason Tesla didn’t get burned is because Shan Nair had a repeatable process. → Get the Lighthouse Leadership newsletter + weekly frameworks here Timestamps 0:00 — Introduction 1:30 — Why physics → business logic 7:16 — The Tesla origin moment 9:15 — What companies always get wrong ...
