Jon McNeill
Former Executive, Tesla-related Operations & Sales Leader, Tesla. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything Jon McNeill said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Microsoft retail staff make better sales hires than Apple order-takers
“You can work in an Apple store and you are an order taker. Go down the hall to the people at the Microsoft store who have to sell a slate two doors down from a Mac, MacBook Air. Those people know how to sell. The fact that they're not starving is unbelievable.…”
AI hyperscalers are building a commodity tooling layer, not capturing ultimate value
“I think they're creating the tooling layer. That then a lot of us are now using to create real businesses on top of. So I kind of go back to the internet breakthrough and internet revolution and think about, okay, like the browsers, everybody was super excited…”
Hiring from matrixed organizations like Nike is risky due to narrow scopes
“Nike's a fully matrixed organization. You pull a marketer out of Nike. That marketer has never had full P&L responsibility, full creative responsibility, full distribution responsibility. They have a very niche job, and it's really hard to determine, did this …”
1,300 cloud cyber platforms launched in five years, while SMBs got zero
“We just happened to ask the question, how many cybersecurity platforms have been created for the cloud in the last five years? And the answer is like, 1300. And then we said, how many have been created for the SMB in the last five years? And the answer was zer…”
Musk slept at the factory while Tesla struggled with Model X doors
“When I started at Tesla, we were having a super big problem producing Model Xs and getting the Falcon wing doors to fit. And Elon and I had shared this favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process. And he grabbed me one day. He said, okay,…”
Tesla slashed 360,000 vehicle configurations after data revealed two main buyer archetypes
“That led to like, 360,000 different combinations of a car that you could choose, which is driving a lot of clicks, plus a lot of decision fatigue for people. And so we went and ran the data, my team ran the data, and we came back and figured out that people we…”
Musk instituted a strict three-sentence email rule for problem-solving at Tesla
“We actually had this a bit of a game for a while. I think it was just his idea. He's like, let's try to get down to three sentence emails. What is the problem? What's your analysis of the root cause and what's your proposed solution? And he's like, I think we …”
Musk tests candidates by deeply interrogating problems he already understands
“So, his hiring method is he wants to determine whether or not you can do world-class work, and his method is to interrogate a particular problem and go super deep on it. And it's, Better if he tries to skew it to a problem that he knows.”
Ex-Tesla president spent 60% of his time interviewing job candidates
“In fact, 60% of my calendar was interviews.”
Intuit founder Scott Cook created the 'follow me home' user observation technique
“I learned this technique from Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit, and he's got this process he calls follow me home. And what it means is you look over the shoulder of real customers who are using your product.”
Levi's CEO Chip Bergh invented the Swiffer while working at P&G
“Chip started his career at P&G. He ended up being the CEO of Levi's, but he was famous at P&G for watching moms in kitchens, like you said, and he invented, he and his team invented the Swiffer, because they were like, the mop sucks.”
Employees create immense value by minimizing a CEO's information and decision time
“The thing executives, if you're talking to a CEO, the most precious commodity that CEO has is time, and it's, Information inbound absorption time, information processing time, decision time, and so if you can get super efficient in communicating to a CEO and s…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jon's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Former Executive, Tesla-related Operations & Sales Leader, Tesla | 1 | 13 | 100% 4/4 | full record on My First Million → |