🔥 Nvidia: From 30 Days to Bankruptcy → $4.3 Trillion Giant 🔥

1993: Jensen Huang starts Nvidia.

1996: Crisis hits. Nvidia is 30 days from dying. Jensen lays off half the company and tells the team the truth.

1997: Nvidia gets a Sega contract — but their chip won’t work. Instead of dumping them, Sega invests $5M, buying Nvidia 6 more months to survive.

1999: The pivot pays off. Nvidia goes public and launches the GeForce 256, the first “GPU,” taking over PC gaming.

Then comes the breakthrough…

Jensen sees researchers hacking gaming GPUs for heavy math and realizes:

👉 “This isn’t a graphics card. It’s a supercomputer.”

Throughout the 2000s, Nvidia builds CUDA, turning GPUs into the backbone of AI and scientific computing.

2016: Jensen delivers the first AI supercomputer (DGX-1) to Elon Musk for a small nonprofit called OpenAI.

2022: Nvidia stock crashes 66%.

• PC demand falls

• Crypto mining dies

• Revenue drops

While the world slows down, Jensen bets everything and secures TSMC’s limited AI chip capacity — predicting an AI explosion.

Nov 2022: ChatGPT drops.

Suddenly every tech giant needs thousands of Nvidia H100s at $30K each.

AI spending skyrockets. CUDA locks developers in.

2023–2025: Every road in AI leads to Nvidia.

🌎 Today

Nvidia is now the most valuable company on Earth at $4.3T, racing toward $5T.

Jensen Huang owns ~3.5% worth $150B+.

From “30 days to shutdown” → Trillion-dollar empire. #CPIWatch