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by neom 863 days ago
Probably not just about scaling, if I had to guess his approach probably takes revisiting first principles, something that has time and time again proven incredibly difficult for incumbent players to do for a myriad of reasons spanning lack of will to capital constraints to lack of know-how.
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Nvidia, sure. But you’ve got deep pockets companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta that don’t have a current hardware income stream to protect and have a valid business outcome that would justify the eye-watering investment that is required. Said companies have a good talent pipeline and enough prestige that they can spin up an entire business unit to work on it.
Presumably that's already happened if they know the cost of implementing it?
Indeed. I would also presume that they have a sense of what to build if they are out pitching for how to build. Pure speculation on my part: I suppose if our presumptions are right, it's somewhat akin to Tesla when it first entered the automotive industry. If I was Sam I suppose some version of that is what I'd be out pitching. (first principle is maybe a stretch with Tesla, but you catch my drift)