The story
Three engineers planned a graphics chip company over coffee at a Denny's. Their first chip flopped and they came close to going under. Years of investment in CUDA left them holding the exact hardware AI would need.
No. 011 · 1993 · Sunnyvale
NVIDIA
Three guys at a Denny's. 30 days from dead. Then AI.
Sold the shovels
Make my startup a legend- 1 1993. A Denny's booth in San Jose.
- 2 The pitch: gaming will need better graphics.
- 3 The first chip flops.
- 4 Thirty days from going out of business.
- 5 The next one saves them.
- 6 They bet on CUDA: graphics cards for science.
- 7 2012: two gaming cards win an AI contest.
- 8 Everyone in the gold rush needs a shovel.
- Founders
- Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem
- Founded
- 1993, Sunnyvale
- What they do
- The GPUs that train and run most of today's AI.