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Intel itself was once a risky company to join, as the whole concept of a microprocessor seemed both stupid and crazy at the same time. Their 4004 series calcula
by astrodust 10y ago
Intel itself was once a risky company to join, as the whole concept of a microprocessor seemed both stupid and crazy at the same time. Their 4004 series calculator controller was a useless toy compared to more serious computer hardware at the time and their 8008 was marginally less toy-like but equally useless for enterprise computing.
We're in the 8088 stage of AI right now.
- zump 10y agoGood point. I have a cognitive bias against startups because I think what they're doing isn't complex, but it is fallacious.
- barrkel 10y agoYou shouldn't chase complexity; chase opportunity. For the same opportunity, a non-complex approach will normally be superior to a complex approach.
- ethbro 10y agoAlso, complexity is hard. And even harder to do substantially better than competitors. Maybe I'm biased, but I can count far more company fortunes that were made doing a simple thing (at the right time) than a complex thing.