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Jon McNeill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
610 total appearances

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My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

It was called Sterling.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Then it's now called Service King.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

It's owned by Carlyle.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

It's got several billion dollars in revenue.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

But the whole premise was,

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

We're going to get your car back way faster because we're just deploying assembly lines versus a hair salon.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

I do have a name for it.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

I have a name for it, I call it an epiphany.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And so my teams that I've worked with now, they hear this phrase a lot, because in that moment, like I'll sit down, I'll write out a Slack or an email and say like, and the subject would be, I just had an epiphany.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And it's kind of a realization moment where you're like, ooh,

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

there's a big opportunity here to move the market.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And that word for me is an epiphany.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

It's just like, whoa, it's like a sudden discovery where you've been like, you've been pilled and now you can see the other side.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Right.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Yeah.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

Man, I'm excited.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

All the way back in college, I worked my way through college

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

writing trading algorithms at the world's largest options and futures trading platform in Chicago.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

I went to college in the Chicago area and worked my afternoons coding.

My First Million
Ex-Tesla President: The Unconventional Ideas Behind Tesla's Hypergrowth

And way back then, we were using the very beginning neural nets.