Hiring raw talent is the first essential component of the Nvidia Way. Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham, who once worked for Yahoo, noticed that once Yahoo started losing the war for the best engineers to Google and Microsoft, the company began slouching toward mediocrity. “Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery,” he
