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How NVIDIA Surpassed Every Tech Giant: A David vs Goliath Story
Discover how NVIDIA, a company founded in 1993, became the world's most valuable corporation, overtaking tech giants like Apple and Microsoft. Learn about their remarkable journey to success and the factors that propelled them to the top.
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On the 18th of June, 2024, NVIDIA became the most valuable company in the world at $3.34 trillion.
They overtook Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, Alphabet.
It's hard to stress just how big of a deal this is.
I mean, Pokemon, you know, the highest-grossing media franchise in the world?
This could buy that company 36 times.
And we know, NVIDIA, you might even be watching this video using one of their graphics cards in your PC.
But we're talking a company that overtook Apple.
You know, the guys who manage to sell luxury smartphones to like a third of the world's population.
You don't beat that just with some high-end PC graphics cards.
So, what on earth have Nvidia done to A. get themselves to a position where they could even
dream of overtaking all the other big tech companies and B.
actually overtake them? And one thing that I need to make super clear, which makes this all the more surprising, is that Nvidia only
started in 1993, which is recent enough that the guy who is now CEO, Jensen Huang,
He was the same guy who founded the company along with two other guys.
Jensen used to work as a waiter's assistant.
in a local Denny's diner when he was younger.
He fell in love with computer science,
and so eventually went from there
to getting his dream job working with AMD,
one of the leaders at the time as a microprocessor designer,
until one day when he decided,
I got an idea.
Jensen basically realized the key thing
that was holding PCs back from unparalleled performance,
which I'm getting to.
So he booked a table all the way back where it began,
at a Denny's diner with these two other guys,
and that is famously where they hatched the plan
to form NVIDIA.
There's literally a plaque on the wall
where that meeting happened.
But NVIDIA didn't have its name at this point.
Do you know where that came from?
Well, most of the guys' files documenting their plans about this future company
had been pretty uncreatively named NextVersion.
So when they decided that we're actually doing this,
they looked up words that included NV in that order,
and they found the Latin word NVIDIA, which is the name of an ancient Roman goddess.
NVIDIA was the personification of envy,
a pretty unpleasant lady with a poisoned tongue and green eyes.
Thus the name NVIDIA was born.
So the brand name basically means...
next version Envy.
Kind of saying, you're going to be so jealous
of our next chip.
And now that you know where the green eye logo comes from,
you too will no longer be able to see it
without also seeing this haunting image alongside it.
So you're welcome.
And now that you know,
