How Jensen Huang Outsmarted Everyone

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Nvidia went from a video game startup to the world's most valuable company. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend the book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by author Stephen Witt https://a.co/d/aUVlNDB Chapters: 0:00 From Denny’s to Destiny 0:50 A Childhood of Resilience 1:34 Falling in Love with Circuits (and Lori) 2:38 Founding Nvidia at Denny’s 3:46 Nvidia’s First Disaster (The NV1) 4:20 30 Days from Going Out of Business 5:42 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant 6:32 TSMC and The Power of Parallel Processing 7:48 Jensen Huang’s Management Style 8:24 From Gaming to Greatness: The Birth of CUDA 9:36 Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity (cuDNN) 10:24 The AI Gold Rush 11:20 Rivals and Geopolitical Tensions 12:15 “Run, Don’t Walk” Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Denny’s restaurant: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Quake III Arena video game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXjUo0jipo (Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) Oregon State University: saml123, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Breadboard circuits: Miclan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons NVIDIA’s former headquarters in Santa Clara: Coolcaesar at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Ikos NSIM-64 Hardware Simulation Accelerator (ardware emulator): ShieldforyoureyesDave Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons NVIDIA’s NV3 chip (Riva 128): © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200: Rafał Nowosad (User:Rafah), CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Jensen Huang at NVIDIA Computex: Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk image: ZACK/MCOM, MINISTÉRIO DAS COMUNICAÇÕES, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Jensen Huang gesticulating: Maurizio Pesce, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Nvidia H100: 极客湾Geekerwan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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