SMRTR TechMay 3, 2026Hacker News

The Man Who Built NVIDIA

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Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder, arrived in America as a child and ended up in a Kentucky reform school — an experience that shaped his ruthless competitive instincts. In 1993, he co-founded NVIDIA to build 3D graphics chips for video games, eventually dominating that market. The real breakthrough came when scientists repurposed NVIDIA's chips for AI research, sparking a revolution that turned NVIDIA into history's most valuable company, worth over $4 trillion.

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