From a Denny’s booth to a $5 trillion AI empire.
Three engineers founded Nvidia at a Denny’s diner in San Jose.
Its first chip flopped. The company almost went bankrupt.
It launched the GeForce 256, billed as the world’s first GPU.
It bet on CUDA. Rivals thought it was a distraction.
That bet became the engine of the entire AI revolution.
Nvidia is now one of the most valuable companies on Earth.