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> As usual, when money is to be found the soulless bean counting serious mba types come along and kill all the fun. A reminder: Even years after inventing CUDA
by BeetleB 1y ago
> As usual, when money is to be found the soulless bean counting serious mba types come along and kill all the fun.
A reminder: Even years after inventing CUDA, Nvidia, the top GPU manufacturer, was fighting for survival. I'm not sure what saved them - perhaps crypto.
If you ignore the money, they appeared quite strong. But they struggled financially. Intel famously considered buying them around 2010 because they knew they could buy them cheap - Nvidia might not survive and weren't in a position to negotiate). Thankfully, the Intel CEO killed the idea because he knew Jensen wouldn't work well with Intel.
Nvidia may not have been saved by "bean counters", but they do have a place in the world.