Fisher Tiger Quotes

I was afraid of him. He was outplaying me, plucking all of my weapons from my fingers and making me feel like a toothless tiger.

it’s also appealing to think that maybe sturgeon have a devious sense of humor, and they like to goof on salmon, and every once in a while a sturgeon will streak to the surface and explode aloft, saying to his posse, hey look, I’m a chinook! and all the sturgeon snigger rudely as the salmon glare and continue their commute, trying to maintain a silvery dignity, while ignoring the catcalls, so to speak, of the sturgeon, who then go back to eating cats. It could be.

According to Jeff Fisher, Nvidia’s approach involves “no magic.” It’s just hard work and ruthless efficiency, all in the service of maintaining competitive advantage. And everyone who works with Nvidia must embrace it, not just its internal teams.4 Everything the tiger teams did was expensive and resulted in a drag on the bottom line. Yet Nvidia has always been willing to use its financial resources to invest in critical parts of the business—even when that has meant other companies’ business.

Nolan Bushnell: I figured out that I could build ’em for about 350 bucks. I priced them at $910. And I figured out this financing model where the manufacturing would self-fund. I negotiated thirty to sixty days from our vendors, and if we could build the machine and ship them in less than a week, the company would operate in positive cash flow. Because we had no capital. Venture capital? I didn’t even know what it was at the time. But we had the tiger by the tail: more orders than we could fill. I remember telling Alcorn and Dabney that we were going to move production up to a hundred a day and they looked at me like I was just stark raving mad.