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We started NVIDIA at a Denny's. If you are going to build a trillion-dollar company, you might as well start at a place with good pancakes.
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I run NVIDIA like we are 30 days from going out of business. That paranoia has served us well for 30 years.
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The GPU was designed for gaming. It turns out the math you need for photorealistic explosions is the same math you need for artificial intelligence. Lucky us.
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CUDA had zero customers for years. People said we were wasting money. Now every AI model on earth runs on CUDA. Patience is a competitive advantage.
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I would not wish starting a company on anybody. It is suffering. If I knew what I know now, I might not have done it. But then I would have missed everything.