NVIDIA, The Beatles, and the Truth About “Overnight” Success

When the Beatles hit The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, it looked like they became stars overnight. 

But behind the screaming fans and hit records were years of grinding in dingy clubs across England and Germany. 

But here’s what most people forget: That “overnight success” was nearly a decade in the making.

Before they ever set foot in America, the Beatles had already played over 1,200 live shows. 

Many were hours-long sets in smoky clubs like The Cavern in Liverpool and the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg. They didn’t just get lucky. 

They earned it with years of grit, failure, and persistence.

The same is true of the world’s first $4 trillion company: NVIDIA.

NVIDIA didn’t become the beating heart of the AI revolution by accident. 

The company was founded back in 1993 — before Google, before smartphones, before “cloud computing” was even a phrase.

Back then, all they wanted to do was make video games look better. 

However, Jensen Huang, NVIDIAa’s visionary founder and CEO, had bigger ideas. 

Over time, he saw that their chips — called GPUs — could do far more than graphics. They could accelerate computing for everything from scientific simulations to artificial intelligence.

So, while Wall Street was chasing the next hot IPO, NVIDIA was laying the foundation — investing in software, chip design, and long-term partnerships. 

The company began naming its chip architectures after scientists like Kepler (2012), Turing (2018), and Lovelace (2022)… and started releasing new breakthroughs every few years.

Then came AI. And the rest is history.

In May 2023, NVIDIA hit a $1 trillion market cap. 

That alone was a massive milestone. 

But two years later, the company did something no one else had ever done: it crossed the $4 trillion mark, leapfrogging Apple and Microsoft in the process.

Its chips — like the H100 and B200 — are now essential building blocks for every major tech company on the planet. OpenAI, Google, Meta… they’re all racing to buy NVIDIA’s chips to power their AI systems.

These aren’t $300 processors you can grab at Best Buy. These are $30,000+ data center workhorses. And NVIDIA can’t make them fast enough.

If you only focused on NVIDIA’s short-term risks — export bans to China, temporary stock dips, rising competition — you’d have sold too soon. 

But if you zoomed out… if you took the owner’s view… you’d have stayed the course.

That’s what we do every day at Prosperity Research.

When we evaluate companies, we don’t ask, “What will this stock do next week?” 

We ask, “Would I want to own this business for the next 10 years?”

That simple shift — from trader to owner — changes everything.

It’s how we found… 

And it’s why we continue to focus on quality businesses with visionary leadership and huge competitive advantages. 

There’s no such thing as overnight success. 

Whether it’s the Beatles or NVIDIA, greatness is built behind the scenes, long before the spotlight ever hits. 

That’s why we ignore the noise, focus on the data, and always think long term.

We stick to our process by investing in businesses we’d want to own forever, not trade like lottery tickets. And we look for companies led by visionary leaders who build toward the future with relentless focus. 

At Prosperity Research, we don’t chase hype. 

We follow great businesses that compound over time. 

Let the crowd chase the next shiny object. 

We’ll keep building wealth — the quiet way.

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Regards,

Charles Mizrahi
Prosperity Insider

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