The Power of Preparation: The Nvidia Story

For the past few months, I’ve been following the world of AI. The development in the field has been accelerating since the launch of ChatGPT in November last year. Bill Gates wrote back in March that the age of AI has begun. One of the winners of this AI boom is Nvidia. Its chips power most of the AI applications being used today. But what’s most interesting to me is the fact that Nvidia was already prepared long before the AI opportunity came. In a recent earnings call with investors, Jensen Huang – the CEO of Nvidia – said this: It costs a lot of money to do it because you have to do all the software and everything, and you have to build all the systems and so on and so forth. But we’ve been at it for 15 years.And what happened is when generative AI came along, it triggered a killer app for this computing platform that’s been in preparation for some time. Isn’t that interesting? Nvidia had been building its computing platform for many years before generative AI came along! When generative AI did come, it became the killer app for something that had been prepared for years. It reminds me of this quote by Abraham Lincoln: I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come. I really like this quote. Why? Because it reminds me of the power of preparation. You prepare first, and someday your opportunity will come. You don’t wait until the opportunity comes before you start preparing; no, that would be too late. Inste...
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