Stephen Witt
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There were activist investors involved.
And during this period, he was just trying to get this company to find a market beyond video games.
And I should say, you know, there were a lot of things that failed.
There were a lot of $0 billion markets that to this day remain $0 billion markets.
The customers never showed up for what they were building.
But to Jetson, that's okay, right?
As long as one succeeds and you become the most valuable firm in human history, it doesn't matter if the other ones fail, right?
So in addition to robotics, there's 30 initiatives now.
I think a lot of them will not succeed, and he would probably tell you that.
But he sees the logic, at least, or the potential for customers to arrive in each one.
The best thing about Jensen is just his candor.
Like he, okay, I interviewed Jeff Bezos once.
This was in like 2016, and Jeff is surrounded by an army of PR people and lawyers.
And I have a list of pre-approved questions that I'm allowed to ask.
And I tried to ask him about, this was in 2016, I tried to ask him about Donald Trump's presidential candidacy.
And the lawyer basically tackled me and dragged me out of the room.
Don't go off script with Jeff.
With Jensen, there is no script.
You can ask him anything.
This guy's worth like a hundred billion dollars.