NVIDIA's bold bets and future-oriented decisions have been psychologically convincing to the board, enabling them to support high-risk, high-reward ventures like CUDA and GPUs in non-gaming markets (e.g., workstations, supercomputers).
you know, you know how it is. You manifest a future and that future is so convincing, there's no way it won't happen. There's a lot of suffering in between, but you've gotta believe what you believe.