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☆ Nvidia briefly overtakes Apple as world's most valuable company—it began in a breakfast booth at Denny's
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Chipmaker Nvidia temporarily dethroned Apple as the most valuable company in the world on Monday — another stop on the company's unlikely journey from startup to tech giant. Nvidia shares rose Monday morning, boosting its market value to $3.38 trillion by the afternoon, surpassing Apple's $3.35 trillion market cap. The news came just days after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Nvidia is replacing rival chipmaker Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a 30-member index that's often viewed as a key metric of the U.S. economy. By Monday evening, Apple bounced back to the top with a $3.38 trillion market value, compared to Nvidia's $3.34 trillion. "We came right here to this Denny's, sat right back there, and the three of us decided to start the company," said Huang.. "Frankly, I had no idea how to do it, nor did they.

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☆ Nvidia's CEO 'had no idea how to' start his $2 trillion company, and wouldn't do it again: 'Nobody in their right mind would do it'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

So says Jensen Huang, who co-founded computer chip company Nvidia with fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem from a Denny's booth in 1993. None of us knew how to do anything," Huang recently told "60 Minutes" about the origins of the company. Today, Huang has been Nvidia's CEO for more than three decades, and he's grown the company — through ups and downs — into a $2.2 trillion tech giant that's helping to power the artificial intelligence boom. The co-founders had never run a business before, but Huang — a microprocessor designer — believed they could build a graphics processing unit (GPU) that would revolutionize video games and computer graphics, he said. If Huang could go back to 1993 and do it all again, he'd probably bail on Nvidia, he told the "Acquired" podcast in October 2023.

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☆ Jensen Huang started his $2 trillion company Nvidia at a Denny's breakfast booth
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Some people start businesses in their parents' garages or basements. Jensen Huang started his trillion-dollar tech company Nvidia while eating at a Denny's restaurant in San Jose, California, he recently told CBS' "60 Minutes." Nvidia, one of the chipmakers behind the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry, is currently worth $2.22 trillion, ranking it among the most valuable companies in the world. But in 1993, it was a business idea shared by three friends and engineers — Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem — who wanted to revolutionize gaming and media with 3D graphics. In 1993, the trio met at the Denny's location, Huang said.

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☆ 10 fascinating facts about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has a company tattoo and dozens of direct reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang is on track to be one of the richest people in the world. Here are 10 surprising facts about Huang, from his Nvidia tattoo to his staggering number of direct reports. AdvertisementJensen Huang, the CEO and cofounder of Nvidia, is leading the charge towards an AI future — with his company making billions. He has a tattoo of Nvidia's logo on his shoulderNvidia founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang displays his tattoo in September 2010. "The more direct reports the CEO has, the less layers are in the company," Huang said during an interview at the 2023 DealBook Summit.

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☆ Nvidia CEO climbs billionaire list as company stock price skyrockets
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s wealth saw a major boost on Thursday as the company he cofounded in 1993 surged in value. Huang, 61, is now worth an estimated $68.1 billion, passing Charles Koch and rapidly gaining on members of the Walton family, who own Walmart, which has a roughly $471 billion market cap. Huang has been at the helm of Nvidia since its beginning, serving as co-founder, CEO, president and board member. Shares of AMD (AMD) were 11% higher on Thursday and Microsoft (MSFT) rose 2%. But the company’s soaring stock price over the past year — shares grew around 230% in 2023 — means Nvidia is now deeply important to the broader market, too.

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☆ Nvidia cofounder lives off the grid, owns a private jet named Snoopy, and gives out single-use email addresses to avoid spam
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Curtis Priem, cofounder of Nvidia, gave the majority of his stock to his college alma mater, Forbes reported. The chip giant's first CTO spent part of his wealth on an off-the-grid home and a private jet. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . By 2006, Priem sold the rest of his shares, leaving him with a fortune worth around $30 million, Forbes estimated. "I did a little crazy thing, and I wish I'd kept a little bit more [Nvidia shares]," Priem told Forbes.

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☆ Nvidia's stock-price surge means CEO Jensen Huang is richer than Nike founder Phil Knight and hedge-fund legend Ken Griffin
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Founder and CEO Jensen Huang's wealth has soared nearly $30 billion as a result. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . That means his fortune now exceeds those of Nike founder Phil Knight, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, and Blackstone supremo Stephen Schwarzman. He'll turn 60 this year, making him years older than fellow tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos when they left day-to-day operations at 52 and 57, respectively.

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☆ Nvidia's founders came up their trillion-dollar idea while spending hours drinking Denny's coffee and eating Grand Slam breakfasts: 'We were not good customers'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nvidia's cofounders told WSJ they came up with the idea for the company over breakfast at Denny's. The company, worth $1 trillion, makes graphics cards for gaming and chips that power AI tech. Nvidia with well-positioned to profit off the AI arms race, Insider previously reported. "We were not good customers," Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky told the Journal. You can read more about Nvidia's founding over at The Wall Street Journal.

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Nvidia chips have been at the heart of major tech tends from video games to self-driving cars, to cloud computing, and now AI - artificial intelligence. Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to the United States as a child, earning engineering degrees at Oregon State University and Stanford University. Its first big hits were specialized chips to power high-intensity motion graphics for computer games called graphics processing units (GPUs). Even then, Huang did not think of Nvidia as just a chip company. "Computer graphics is one of the most complex parts of computer science," Huang told an audience in Silicon Valley in 2021 while receiving a lifetime achievement award.

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May 30 (Reuters) - Jensen Huang, the chief of chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), has joined an elite list of tech executives to head a company worth $1 trillion. Nvidia shares have been on a tear, rising on stellar sales projections from a boom in artificial-intelligence workloads and components. Huang was born in Taiwan but moved to the United States as a child, earning engineering degrees at Oregon State University and Stanford University. In 1993 he founded Nvidia along with Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, securing backing from Silicon Valley's Sequoia Capital and others. As companies further adopt AI, Nvidia could be one of the key beneficiaries.

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☆ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's bet big on A.I. is paying off as his core technology powers ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

As the engine behind large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Nvidia is finally reaping rewards for its early investment in AI. Nvidia counts on China for about one-quarter of its revenue, including sales of its popular AI chip, the A100. Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang shows CNBC's Katie Tarasov a Hopper H100 SXM module in Santa Clara, CA, on February 9, 2023. Nvidia founders Curtis Priem, Jensen Huang and Chris Malachowsky pose at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters in 2020. "We invented this new way of doing computer graphics, ray tracing, basically simulating the pathways of light and simulate everything with generative AI.

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