Jensen has said many times that he could not do his job effectively without in-depth familiarity with the technology itself. “It’s essential we understand the underpinnings of the technology so you have an intuition for how the industry is going to change,” he once remarked.8 “Our ability to extrapolate and see down the road is really vital because technology is changing fast, but it still takes us several years to build a great solution.” Only with domain expertise can he decide which projects to support, estimate how long they will take, and then allocate resources properly to generate the
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