| ▲ | krisoft a day ago | |
You say that as if a lottery assigns companies what product they shall make. Or that they found their product designs in a kinder egg. They had an idea which they thought will be valuable. And they worked bery hard on making that idea a reality. People complain that companies don’t have leadership with long term vision. The leadership of NVIDIA heard the idea of GGPU computation and put the resources behind the idea to make it a practical reality. Here the gap between “nerdy idea” to “product sells like hot-cakes”, is measured in decades. That is not just luck. | ||
| ▲ | wnmurphy a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
Finding yourself making matrix multiplication machines for computer graphics, then suddenly an unrelated technological revolution requires that exact hardware? They absolutely got incredibly lucky. | ||
| ▲ | buellerbueller 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
This is survivorship bias. Show me a Jobs-like track record and then we can talk business genius. This guy had 1 at bat and (to mix sports metaphors) we don't know if he skated to where the puck was heading, or if the market happened to converge on this thing because it was available. Also, your comment has a hefty dose of survivorship bias. Lots of companies have long term visions they think will be valuable, and work very hard towards making them a reality. Few succeed. You're counting the survivors, not the attempts. Furthermore, you fail to demonstrate that a different CEO of NVIDIA would have done something different. | ||