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IncreasePosts • today at 12:17 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

What percent of nvidias success was due to vision, vs luck?

I made a boat load of money off of the Tesla IPO(and then holding for 12 years) but I only invested because I thought they wouldn't be a successful car company but would produce a bunch of patents that would be valuable when licensed to the big auto makers.

Obviously I got that wrong, but my investment still worked out - and I still have friends and family coming to me for investing advice because I made the right move but for the wrong reasons


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mrheosuper • today at 2:46 AM

If it happens 1 time, you can call it luck.

But CUDA, Ray tracing acceleration, DLSS? It's not luck anymore.

musha68k • today at 3:51 AM

Although I'm still more of a "Voodoo person" myself, the "Riva128 guy" has shown bold vision and relentlessly fierce execution on top of it - consistently - since the early 90s..