Jacob Freeman of EVGA Joins NVIDIA as GeForce Evangelist

[bug]

EVGA will be a distant memory a few years from now.

What can you do? When your business doesn't make sense anymore, you pack up shop.

Nothing and I would have been just as happy for him. But you do see some comical reactions to him joining Nvidia in this thread lol.

He can't, he is the comical reaction: one post he makes fun of the evangelist position, three posts later he says joining AMD would have been no problem

 

[Xaled]

Nothing and I would have been just as happy for him. But you do see some comical reactions to him joining Nvidia in this thread lol.

I don't see them comical
He does have the right to do a morally and ethically wrong thing, the same way we have the right to criticize what he did.

What can you do? When your business doesn't make sense anymore, you pack up shop.


He can't, he is the comical reaction: one post he makes fun of the evangelist position, three posts later he says joining AMD would have been no problem

I didnt make fun of the evangelist position, I've made fun of Jacob Freeman

 

[Vayra86]

No way, marketing dude without conscience, this is truly a rare occurence!

 

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I didnt make fun of the evangelist position, I've made fun of Jacob Freeman

Do you know him personally?

 

[Xaled]

Do you know him personally?

Do you try to make me angry by asking irrelevant and nonsense questions?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Do you try to make me angry by asking irrelevant and nonsense questions?

Are you going to turn green..... OR better yet probably red.....

 

[the54thvoid]

Enough trolling of one another.

 

[Vayra86]

If I were him I would have applied at Valve

 

[Denver]

Nothing and I would have been just as happy for him. But you do see some comical reactions to him joining Nvidia in this thread lol.

I don't understand what you're talking about.

The reactions seem logical to me, considering that Nvidia broke EVGA's legs.

 

[damric]

Congratulations @EVGA_JacobF

Recently you were very good to the folding@home community, arranging some very nice donated prizes with international shipping.

Your work at EVGA was much appreciated.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I don't understand what you're talking about.

The reactions seem logical to me, considering that Nvidia broke EVGA's legs.

While I hate that evga is dead in the gpu space been buying their products for over a decade they chose to ditch nvidia which is fine. Someone wanting to continue to work with products he is familiar with while still putting food on the table is really no reason to fanboy it up over his decision.

All these companies aren't our friends and I view them all the same do they offer me a product I want if not F em.

 

[bug]

Enough trolling of one another.

Trolling by proxy is ok then?

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

NVIDIA's all-important gaming graphics product division

 

[Naito]

S'pose they need someone to convince customers to accept the ever increasing prices of GPUs...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

S'pose they need someone to convince customers to accept the ever increasing prices of GPUs...

He does have a really hard job now definitely don't envy him trying to sell people on the 4070 and soon the 4060/4060ti lol.

 

[Denver]

While I hate that evga is dead in the gpu space been buying their products for over a decade they chose to ditch nvidia which is fine. Someone wanting to continue to work with products he is familiar with while still putting food on the table is really no reason to fanboy it up over his decision.

All these companies aren't our friends and I view them all the same do they offer me a product I want if not F em.

I don't think someone like him would have a hard time getting a job elsewhere.

Businesses are definitely not all the same. Well, to each their own personal limits and values, but working for someone responsible for destroying my previous job would be my last option. I would prefer to work in competition.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I don't think someone like him would have a hard time getting a job elsewhere.

Businesses are definitely not all the same. Well, to each their own personal limits and values, but working for someone responsible for destroying my previous job would be my last option. I would prefer to work in competition.

And that's very respectable. I just don't personally know any of the details that lead him to choose to work for Nvidia that would allow me to decide whether it was a good or bad move just the one side I heard from EVGA and just like with everything there is always two sides to every story.

Again as much as I like evga I likely would have even purchased their 4090 I don't take what companies say publicly as fact. The CEO to me seemed like he just got butthurt over Nvidia not giving them preferential treatment but that's just my take how someone else interprets it all is their own business.

Me personally I just take what pays the most that offers me the hours I want to work. Fortunately I only have to work 2 days a week to support my family and hobbies.

 

[64K]

I wouldn't get too caught up over loyalty and ethics. This is the GPU Industry. I will bet almost every gamer here has bought a card with a Nvidia or AMD GPU in it and both sides have slinged some shit at times.

This guy Freeman isn't a saint but who is in the GPU Industry?

 

[Wirko]

Evangelism and tech can go take a dump. It's just another world for PR shill. No better than AMD's team red sort of commune.

I don't know the guy but if he's an evangelist, is envy (invidia) the religion?

 

[Denver]

I wouldn't get too caught up over loyalty and ethics. This is the GPU Industry. I will bet almost every gamer here has bought a card with a Nvidia or AMD GPU in it and both sides have slinged some shit at times.

This guy Freeman isn't a saint but who is in the GPU Industry?

And that's very respectable. I just don't personally know any of the details that lead him to choose to work for Nvidia that would allow me to decide whether it was a good or bad move just the one side I heard from EVGA and just like with everything there is always two sides to every story.

Again as much as I like evga I likely would have even purchased their 4090 I don't take what companies say publicly as fact. The CEO to me seemed like he just got butthurt over Nvidia not giving them preferential treatment but that's just my take how someone else interprets it all is their own business.

Me personally I just take what pays the most that offers me the hours I want to work. Fortunately I only have to work 2 days a week to support my family and hobbies.

I know ecommerce owners with contacts within these AIBs, Nvidia has in fact been eroding partners' margins gradually. So the claim is well founded.

 

[Blaeza]

If your job disappears at your current place of work, you go elsewhere, right? Maybe not the ideal place to switch to when they've just closed your department, but money is money...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

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I know ecommerce owners with contacts within these AIBs, Nvidia has in fact been eroding partners' margins gradually. So the claim is well founded.

Yes they are also the market leader if you don't like it don't sell their products ala EVGA NVidia doesn't owe these companies anything. Not that any of the other major tech companies are all that ethical.

Someone taking a job has nothing to do with EVGA not being able to make money on GPUs. Again EVGA chose to stop selling GPUS they also found AMD not very appealing obviously.

Now if Nvidia straight up stopped supplying gpu's to evga I might feel a bit different about it.

I think that is the problem here people have some sort of blind notion that any of these companies owe anything to anyone they don't they just want our money the end.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

People are fanboying it up a little too hard in this thread.... Had he joined AMD I wonder what the general sentiments would have been.

For all their talk of team green's mindshare, the peanut gallery has lots of red cringe on standby.

Honestly I was kinda hoping EVGA would make RDNA4 GPU's.

It would have been interesting, OTOH EVGA had some serious quality control issues on the 2000 and 3000 series. Their cards were the vast majority that died on new world, after all.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

For all their talk of team green's mindshare, the peanut gallery has lots of red cringe on standby.

It would have been interesting, OTOH EVGA had some serious quality control issues on the 2000 and 3000 series. Their cards were the vast majority that died on new world, after all.

My view of them being positive is likely due to owning over a dozen of their gpus over the last 15 years and none of them dying. Yet I've had Sapphire and powercolor which are AMD partners die multiple times.

For all the people being displaced in the EVGA gpu division again this was their own choice to abandon the gpu market I just hope they all find jobs they honestly were very pleasant to deal with.

Maybe they should have just offered terrible CS like all the other partners and they still would be able to make money.

 

[KrazyT]

If I were him I would have applied at Valve

Yes, so he could work with his brother Gordon !