In 1996 Nvidia's first chip had failed, Sega had walked away, and Jensen Huang had laid off half his staff with about thirty days of money left. This episode follows the whole run: the Kentucky reform school he was sent to by mistake at ten, the Denny's in San Jose where the company was founded in 1993, the investor who threatened to kill him, the emulator bet that produced the RIVA 128, the term he coined for the GPU, and the decade he spent paying for CUDA while Wall Street asked him to stop.
It also covers the 2012 competition that changed everything, the computer he hand delivered to OpenAI, the crypto bust, the collapsed Arm deal, ChatGPT, and the climb from one trillion to five trillion dollars. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
