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For real. Without the crypto bubble and then the AI bubble, he would still be a guy selling GPUs to gamers.

NVidia was at the right place at the right time, nothing else.

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Not really, there were other GPU manufacturers who aren't around any more and didn't get propped by those waves. There's no denying that the company was doing more things right than their competitors.

P.S. As a linux user I ascribe to the "FU nvidia" Linus' school of thought (because drivers) and I am happily running a Framework desktop instead of an nvidia rig. But credit where credit's due.

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Not really, they were casting about for these kind of opportunities since day 1 in the early 00s, and pushing it with GPGPU talks at universities in the 2010s. And eventually it bore fruit.

Jensen has absolutely made his own luck here. They were in the right place waiting for the right time for decades before it hit.

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idk maybe successfully founding & managing (currently) BIGGEST technological company for 3 decades,

that's main driver behind the biggest technological innovation of humankind requires you to be quite smart, don't you think?

wtf

>terms of engineering and development, that makes you think he's smart?

yes, because only engineering and development requires smartness! Do you really think it is true? wtf

>Idk I always find difficult to believe that people really think that CEOs are smart, when they commonly are not involved what so ever in any scientific leading or research, and just funnel money to a product that make them richer.

If you really believe that picking what to invest is easy, then go ahead to the stock market - you should outperform it easily then.

what the fuck is this take :D

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