Comment by adastra22
13 hours ago
Yeah, The NVIDIA Way goes into a lot of detail on how and why the pivot from graphics to AI happened. This is a prime example of “you make your own luck.” Jensen engineered an organization that was primed to recognize and pounce on the next big thing, and it ended up being AI. But they saw it coming WAY in advance (like 2011/2012, not 2017) because they were explicitly on the lookout.
> an organization that was primed to recognize and pounce on the next big thing
e.g.: previous crypto hype-cycle
https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-cmp-graphics-card-availabilit...
Crypto was a stupid fad, but Nvidia certainly made a lot of money, so being a vendor to a fad is not stupid.
Which makes it a Exempli gratia of "an organization that was primed to recognize and pounce on the next big thing." In addition, they also recognized early on some of the weaknesses of crypto-mining as an industry and limited their exposure while making a pivot to the next thing.