Schrödinger: The Nvidia biotech partner Jensen Huang told to "think bigger"

Ya know I used to have these types of issues more often but I was a.) on PopOS instead of arch (which i use now) and b.) it was awhile ago and the software seemed to have matured a bit.

As such, Im a little surprised to see someone blaming Nvidia specifically for issues rather than Windows, WSL, or any distribution of linux that makes it difficult to install software outside of the official channels (e.g. debian variants). Can you elaborate on the context?

What trouble did you have?

From my observations, I think Cony is very quick to identify when a particular technology has outpaced the rest is the portfolio, and so he is very quick to spin up a new venture to try and capitalize on that, rather than waiting for the rest of the portfolio to catch up and deliver.

How many useful technologies were created in pursuit of a goal that ultimately was never realized, but were later repurposed into something incredible in an entirely different field or market? My guess is (and this is just a guess), that the newcos were attempts to capitalize on technology created in pursuit of other goals. If you need 5 things to come together to design a drug, and you only get 3 of them, you may fail to get the drug, but you still have 3 pieces of valuable technology that it might make sense to commercialize.

Also, biotech failure rate is up there with restaurants. It's always a roll of the dice....so if you can roll more dice for marginal cost, its basically always a good idea.

How can you be so sure about that?

> basically is Jensen bullied Huang into buying more GPUs

Jensen is Huang. Jensen Huang is NVidia’s CEO.

Schrödinger’s CEO is Ramy Farid

I do think you have to have a split personality a la Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in order to be CEO of nvidia.

You can clearly see this struggle for control anytime poor Huang has to a present new GPU, the evil Jensen comes roaring out "the more you buy... More you save".

The company is an established leader in molecular design software suite. Everyone uses their docking software.

Not remotely, Schrödinger is well established and basically leads the commoditized computational chemistry market. In fact, there are very many companies that would love to find a cheaper alternative to Schrödinger tools, but no alternatives are performant enough.

Are you implying that quantum mechanics is not that important to medicine and material design?

That sounds completely irrelevant to the company.

Barbara Streisand effect.

Wow, did not know that about his history. What a scumbag.

While irrelevant, I have to thank you for bringing this to my attention - I had no idea that he was, by all accounts, a pedophile. How disappointing.