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Chris Morris

Cops, coffee, and skepticism: Nvidia's rocky road to becoming a $1 trillion company

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Nvidia broke into the trillion-dollar club on Wall Street this week, an impressive feat for any company, but perhaps even more so considering where it got its start.

Long before they were launching GeForce graphics cards and powering A.I. engines, the founders of the graphic chip manufacturer were focused instead on things like Moons Over My Hammy and pancakes as they sat in a booth of a bullet-ridden Denny’s near San Jose, not far from CEO Jensen Huang’s home.

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