Idea Name
Context / Source
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish #141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
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Key Idea
There’s a hard to scale vs hard to destroy scale
Like Jiro vs Mcdonalds
Speaker 0: Just a way a standardized religion is easier to disrupt in a non standardized religion, Right? one is hard to scale, one is hard to destroy. Speaker 1: I like that continuum go deeper on that. The hard to scale versus hard to destroy. Speaker 0: So if you think about a hard to scale businesses, let’s say this great restaurant, you can’t make a chain out of it. It’s just impossible, right? Because the guy can’t teach all the skills to build five chefs, 10 chefs, right? But they’re also hard to describe because if it really works, there are so many restaurants that works for hundreds of years because they have just perfected that, but they can’t build branches they can’t do. But there is a Mcdonald’s which has managed to scale the version, right? Which is