Earlier in the week Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at Caltech, as the keynote speaker at the Class of 2024 Commencement Ceremony. Huang, one of the richest people in the world, talked about how Nvidia used to build products that “would be incredibly successful, generate enormous amounts of excitement. And then one year later, we were kicked out of those markets.”
The fabled graphics and acceleration computing company went through several rough patches in the 90s. This happened so much that its unofficial corporate motto, which it still uses internally today, is, “Our company is thirty days from going out of business.”
