A Quirky Idea -> Trillion Dollar Nvidia

Source: MIT Technology Review, Oct 2023

Nvidia is now a trillion-dollar company.

At the time it was desperate to find applications for its niche new hardware. “When you invent a new technology, you have to be receptive to crazy ideas,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “My state of mind was always to be looking for something quirky, and the idea that neural networks would transform computer science—that was an outrageously quirky idea.”

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