This guy doesn’t have confidence issues. Q> Why can Tachyum succeed where larger organizations have failed? A> I would have to say it is due to my technical i

This guy doesn’t have confidence issues. Q> Why can Tachyum succeed where larger organizations have failed? A> I would have to say it is due to my technical instincts born from hard won experience, along with learning from others’ mistakes, and disciplining myself to work only on important challenges. Even in large companies such as Intel and NVIDIA, the real innovation usually springs from a small group of innovators. At SandForce which I founded, my competitors were Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk, Micron, Western Digital, LSI, Seagate, and many others with 1000s [of] engineers, and with less than 100 employees we won.