Nvidia - The Stew of Powers

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Vidia is a platform in my mind, no doubt about it. Coda and en Nvidia and general purpose computing on g p ss, a platform. All of the stew of powers that go into making apple, micrsoft, oknow, and the like go into it. Back then, yat such a good point, kicking myself, one i have is a being willing to expand your mission. And now it's much more wherever there is a cpu, there is an opportunity to accelerate that CPU. An envidia will bring accelerated computing to everyone. That's pretty different.

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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Ben Thompson’s great Stratechery interview with Jensen
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