Joel Devariste

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon Heavy lifts off from pad 39A in Florida for the 13th time!

[SportsCenter NEXT @SCNext]

A'mir Sears is UNREAL 😱 Moments after snagging the INT on defense he scores on a deep ball - Columbus up 14-0 on #1 👀

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

I don’t think most people understand the massive scale of investment Tesla & SpaceX are making in Texas right now.

Everything the two companies are/going to build across the state:
• Terafab (Grimes County)
• Gigasat factory (in Bastrop, currently under construction)
• Optimus factory (at Giga Texas, currently under construction)
• Advanced technology fab (at Giga Texas, currently under construction)
• Tesla Project Crystal Sun (big solar cell plant in Fort Bend County. Late 2026 construction start date)
• Expanded Starlink terminal production facility (in Bastrop, currently under construction)
• Further Starbase expansion (in Starbase)
• Tesla Megafactory 3 (in Brookshire, just started prod)

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Terafab Texas definitely has the most sci-fi/futuristic factory design ever. Looks so cool.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Sci-fi city is what we’re aiming for

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

SpaceX Starship Heat Shield Comparison Between Flights 10-13.

It’s getting better every time. This is what progress looks like. 🦾

[Joel Devariste @JoelDevariste]

"Fall in love with the hard work. The victories are temporary, but the person you become through the grind lasts forever."

[Joel Devariste @JoelDevariste]

No quit in me all I know is hard work.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words

[Joel Devariste @JoelDevariste]

💯

[EchelonFront @EchelonFront]

Extreme Ownership means every single thing that affects you, your team, and the outcome is your responsibility.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship V3 first flight countdown starting

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

So many phonies, so few who are the real deal

[Aesthetics 𝕏 @aestheticsguyy]

Perfectly timed photo

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon is the first orbital-class rocket capable of recovery and reuse. The first stage booster supporting this mission will complete the first landing at Landing Zone 40 at Cape Canaveral, our newest recovery site

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 has landed, completing our first landing at LZ-40!

[Joel Devariste @JoelDevariste]

Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Jensen Huang
>born 1963 in Tainan, Taiwan
>dad is a chemical engineer
>family moves to Thailand, then to America
>age 9, parents send you to boarding school in Kentucky
>plot twist: it's actually a reform school
>roommate has a knife, covered in cigarette burns
>other kids are violent, troubled, dangerous
>you're a tiny Taiwanese kid who speaks broken English
>survive by doing homework for the older kids
>clean toilets every morning before class

1970s:
>family reunites in Oregon
>finally normal life
>get a job as a busboy at Denny's
>wash dishes, mop floors, seat customers
>fall in love with the work
>no joke, you genuinely love it
>learn that no job is beneath you

high school:
>table tennis prodigy
>ranked top in the nation for your age
>also good at academics
>quiet, focused, grinding

1984:
>graduate Oregon State, electrical engineering
>go to Stanford for masters
>smart but not the smartest in the room
>don't care, you outwork everyone

1984-1993:
>join AMD as a microprocessor architect
>then LSI Logic as a chip designer
>learn the guts of how chips work
>see that graphics are the future
>nobody agrees with you

January 1993:
>meet Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem
>both engineers, both believers
>meeting spot: a Denny's booth
>yes, the same Denny's where you bussed tables
>you're 30 years old
>idea: build chips specifically for 3D graphics
>PCs are beige boxes that display spreadsheets
>you want them to render worlds
>everyone says the market doesn't exist
>you: "it will"
>initial investment was $600 ($200 each from founders)
>found NVIDIA with $40,000

1993-1995:
>work out of a tiny office
>build the NV1
>technically ambitious
>uses quadratic texture mapping (not triangles like everyone else)
>Sega partners with you
>then Sega changes direction
>NV1 flops
>company nearly dies
>first near-death experience

1996:
>pivot hard
>admit the NV1 approach was wrong
>adopt industry-standard triangle rendering
>release RIVA 128
>it's fast, it's cheap, it works
>sells a million units
>NVIDIA lives

1997-1999:
>graphics card wars
>you vs. 3dfx vs. ATI vs. everyone
>3dfx has Voodoo, the market leader
>you're the underdog
>outship them, outpace them
>release new chips every 6 months
>insane cadence
>competitors can't keep up

1999:
>release GeForce 256
>invent the term "GPU" graphics processing unit
>it's marketing genius and technical innovation at once
>the GPU does calculations the CPU used to do
>games look better, run faster
>gaming explodes
>you ride the wave

2000:
>3dfx collapses
>you buy their assets
>the king is dead

2000s:
>dominate gaming
>every serious gamer knows your name
>green logo everywhere
>ATI (later AMD) is your only real competitor
>you trade blows for years
>but you're always slightly ahead

2006:
>make the bet that changes everything
>launch CUDA
>a programming platform that lets developers use GPUs for general computing
>not just graphics, any parallel computation
>Wall Street: "why would anyone need this?"
>academics: "interesting but niche"
>you: "just wait"
>invest hundreds of millions over the next decade
>no immediate payoff
>investors complain
>you don't budge

2012:
>deep learning starts working
>researchers discover neural networks need massive parallel computation
>CPUs are too slow
>your GPUs? perfect
>AlexNet wins ImageNet using NVIDIA GPUs
>the AI winter ends
>spring begins

2016:
>hand-deliver the first DGX-1 to OpenAI personally
>$129,000 AI supercomputer in a box
>Sam Altman thanks you
>this machine trains the models that become GPT
>you're not just supplying the AI revolution
>you're arming it

2017-2019:
>crypto boom
>miners need GPUs to mine Bitcoin and Ethereum
>demand explodes
>gamers can't buy cards, miners buy everything
>revenue skyrockets
>then crypto crashes
>inventory glut
>stock drops 50%
>second near-death scare
>you survive

2020:
>buy ARM for $40 billion
>biggest semiconductor deal ever
>regulators block it
>deal collapses in 2022
>$1.25 billion breakup fee

2022-2023:
>ChatGPT launches
>the world discovers AI
>everyone realizes: all of this runs on NVIDIA
>every AI lab, every cloud provider, every tech giant needs your chips
>H100 GPUs sell for $40,000 each
>can't make them fast enough
>data centers beg for allocation

2024:
>NVIDIA market cap: $1 trillion
>then $2 trillion
>then briefly passes Apple and Microsoft
>most valuable company on earth
>you're worth $100 billion+

the lifestyle:
>still wear black leather jackets
>every single day
>same style since the 90s
>have an actual NVIDIA tattoo on your arm
>employees get matching tattoos

management style:
>no 1:1 meetings
>40+ direct reports
>everyone's in the room together
>if you disagree, say it publicly or shut up
>"I'd rather hear bad news early than good news late"
>run the company like you're always 30 days from bankruptcy
>because you remember when you almost were
>multiple times

2025 & 2026:
>AI demand still exploding
>Blackwell chips shipping
>competitors trying to catch up
>AMD, Intel, Google, Amazon all building AI chips
>you're still ahead
>still paranoid
>still shipping

from Denny's busboy to $100+ billion.

the entire future runs on your chips.
every ChatGPT query, every AI image, every autonomous car.
all NVIDIA.

you saw it 20 years before anyone else.
you bet the company on it.
you were right.

[Joel Devariste @JoelDevariste]

Learning and unlearning habits.