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In an era of massive scale companies and giant projects, it's fascinating how often it feels like most of the success of a project or company's big successes ul
by fardo 2y ago
In an era of massive scale companies and giant projects, it's fascinating how often it feels like most of the success of a project or company's big successes ultimately hinge on the actions of a few key individuals in the right place at the right time - and it never fails to surprise me how little overlap these individuals and the actual actual company org charts share.
- Hamuko 2y ago"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
- gkanai 2y ago[flagged]
- yapyap 2y ago> If Sega had held onto that Nvidia stock from then... ChatGPT tells me: "So, if you invested $5 million in Nvidia stock at its IPO in 1999, it would be worth approximately $3 billion today, assuming a current share price of $450 and accounting for stock splits." why not just either do the math yourself or not include it at all? I don’t find GPT math about realtime prices and such to be even slightly reliable given the; market fluctuations , latest training data & of course the hallucinations.
- soganess 2y agoI found it useful. I just put an asterisk on the number and moved on. Even without the exact number, I was reminded that 5 million in 1999 value for a company who's crown jewel was what, the riva tnt 2, means a serious amount of the company's worth now.
- kortilla 2y agoOrg charts are structured around running the company day to day. The surprising one-off big boosts from an individual are by definition not reflected in an org chart.