Status Updates From The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huan...

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the customers themselves do - I cannot see now how this can be possible, but I suppose, management consultants possess this skill. The salesforce's job was to anticipate how much customers were willing to pay for Nvidia's superior products; Jensen would provide them with 'reinforcements'. And this echoes what the Trade Product division have said - Soh Fern.

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This, in Jensen's eyes, was a failure on Moore's part to KYC - Jensen expected each salesperson to be the 'CEO of your accounts'. I, ofc, wish on a daily basis to aspire to this lofty goal - practical constraints (like time itself! And limited attention) hinder me from reaching this ideal, but I strive to improve.

Jensen also expected the Nvidia ARMs to know more about their customers' businesses than ...

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Possibly the passage in this book that rings the most for my current role - Derik Moore's (a top salesperson at Nvidia) meeting with the HP execs that Jensen joined. The HP execs caught Jensen with a surprise request by demanding Nvidia indemnify the full value of their (HP's) servers; Jensen countered that this is unreasonable, and negotiated to only cover the cost of HP's annual purchases of Nvidia chips.

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diverse fields.

My immediate thought was whether this same technology is used by trading firms to do matrix pricing for thinly traded securities. And I was proven right almost immediately as the author moves on to discuss the applications of GPUs in the early 2000s for things like options pricing.

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This Mark Harris guy observed way back in 2002 that more and more computer scientists were using GPUs (e.g. Nvidia's GeForce 3) for non-graphics applications: in particular, matrix multiplication. Only a GPU can do matrix multiplication (at least, way back then) because as matrices get larger, the computational complexity increases cubically - but so does their ability to explain real-world problems in ...