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Be Jensen Huang
• Born in Tainan, Taiwan (1963)
• Moves to Thailand as a kid, then gets sent to the US at 9 with his older brother
• Relatives enroll them at Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky, thinking it's a prep school
• Works at Denny's as a dishwasher and busboy
• Graduates high school at 16
• Electrical engineering degree from Oregon State (1984)
• Meets his wife Lori there as his lab partner
• Designs chips at AMD, then LSI Logic
• Gets a master's from Stanford at night while working full time (1992)
• At 30, sits in a Denny's booth in San Jose with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem
• They start Nvidia in 1993
• First chip flops, and the company comes close to going under
• Riva 128 saves them (1997)
• IPO in 1999
• Same year, launches the GeForce 256 and calls it the first GPU
• 2006, bets the company on CUDA so GPUs can be used for more than games
• Wall Street hates it for years
• 2012, AlexNet gets trained on two Nvidia gaming cards and the AI boom starts on his hardware
• 2016, hand-delivers the first DGX-1 AI supercomputer to OpenAI
• ChatGPT drops, and every AI lab on earth needs his chips
• Nvidia becomes the first company worth $5 trillion
• Still runs it 30+ years later, same leather jacket
• Cheats on his wife of 40 years with a CCP assst

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