Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…He got there when he was 16 because he had skipped a couple grades. He loves math, so he decides he's going to major in electrical engineering at OSU. He totally falls in love in more ways than one. The first way that he falls in love is he just thinks electrical engineering is the coolest thing in the world. He becomes one of the top students in the school. He talks about how he gets mad at the professors because they don't use enough precision when talking about exact numbers. Which he later comes to say that he respects the opposite position. I think some of the NVIDIA employees call it CEO math when he rounds all the numbers and he's like, reflecting back, I do understand what the professors were trying to show. The details only matter if you understand the big picture first. That's so Jensen, he understands. My employees get mad at me when I round the numbers and you see your math, like I get it. I appreciate precision, too, but the big picture is what matters here. The second way he falls in love is with his lab partner in electrical engineering fundamentals. His lab partner, Lori, who goes on to become his wife. It's such a cool story. He graduated in 1984. She graduated in 1985. They moved down to Silicon Valley. Jensen joins AMD as an equivalent of a chip design PM. It's very engineering–heavy, but he's kind of like a PM. He's helping as a junior manager of a process for developing a chip. He's working on a then blazing fast one megahertz CPU chip.…

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