utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
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Nvidia was just a gaming graphics card company and then some crazy bros used them for crypto mining and AI and they stumbled into being the largest company in history
I don't know what the lesson is...
Nvidia didn’t pivot, they paid attention!
They originally designed GPU products to render pixels fast. But they were smart enough to watch what customers were actually doing with their products. The two weirdest groups of customers were crypto miners using GPUs to brute-force hashes, and researchers using GPUs for linear algebra and neural nets.
The lesson is study what customers actually do with your product, not just what you designed it to do.
There are many examples like this. YouTube started as a video dating site, but people uploaded everything except dating videos. Slack was originally a chat tool for a video game they were building, until they realized users liked the using the chat tool more than the actual game being developed.