Why @AlexHormozi Will Become The Next Elon Musk Through Kindness

Name: Why @AlexHormozi Will Become The Next Elon Musk Through Kindness
Uploaded: 2023-06-19T00:29:48+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this monologue, the speaker admires Elon Musk’s talent for positioning every venture he touches as a world‑saving mission, citing his transformation…

19 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker admires Elon Musk’s talent for positioning every venture he touches as a world‑saving mission, citing his transformation of Twitter into a platform for free speech. The speaker argues that building a company on praise rather than punishment yields higher performance, contrasting praise‑driven cultures with the toxic, punishment‑driven environments perceived at firms like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and McKinsey. He also anticipates gendered pushback, noting that a woman championing kindness might be dismissed, but believes his own appearance and delivery can convey the message effectively.

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One of the things I've always envied about Elon is that like every company he gets involved in basically saves the world. So even Twitter, he was like, needs free speech. And it's like, boom. I was like, man, how did he take a meme platform with tweets of arrogant dudes, you know what I mean? And turn it into free speech for civilization. Like that's where I think a lot of his genius is. And so for us, we want to build a company off of praise and not punishment. You can punish people or you can praise them. And we believe that you get more performance out of praise. Now you look at Goldman Sachs, you look at JP Morgan, you look at McKinsey, and a lot of people are like, man, it's a toxic, toxic work environment. It's really hard, blah, blah, blah. And so those are usually punishment-driven cultures. If it were just Leila, it'd be a woman-driven thing. People would be like, oh, it's a girl who's saying you should be nice to people. But I think I, given how I look, how I talk, I can probably deliver that message.