Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most
rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was
plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into
building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases
and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle
happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th
largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every
internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade
since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on
Nvidia.





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