Before Nvidia was Nvidia, @JensenHuang and his cofounders decided on NVision as the name for the company. 👀
That is, until they realized it was already taken by a toilet paper company 🧻
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Jensen Huang had $200 to his name when he discovered a toilet paper company owned the name of his future $3 trillion empire.
It’s 2 a.m. in his Sunnyvale apartment. "NVision" was taken by a toilet-paper brand called Envision.
He grabbed his roommate's Latin dictionary. Started at “A.” By sunrise, he'd landed on "invidia"—envy, sketched an eye logo, and filed the paperwork that morning.
The Denny's where they'd written the business plan still had bullet holes in the window.
Each founder threw in $200.
Total war chest: $600.
Four years later, the @nvidia NV2 prototype for Sega failed spectacularly. Most CEOs would have buried the news in technical jargon.
Jensen Huang flew to Japan with the broken chip.
In Sega’s CEO's office, he laid out exactly why it failed. No spin. No promises. Just the engineering diagrams of their failure. NVIDIA’s contract gave Sega every right to walk away.
The CEO listened. Stood up. Wrote a $5 million check.
That money bought six months. RIVA 128 shipped with 30 days of cash left.
Nobody talks about what happened next:
When Jensen bet everything on CUDA in 2006, profits stagnated and the board worried about activist raiders.
Today, those "gaming toys" train every major AI model. 5 million developers. $35.6 billion from data centers just last quarter.
But here's what nobody understands: Jensen Huang still runs this $3 trillion company like they have 30 days of cash left.
• No 1-on-1s
• 60 direct reports
• Reads hundreds of engineering emails every Sunday
In 2003, NVIDIA shipped the GeForce FX 5800 with a cooler so loud reviewers called it "the Dustbuster."
Huang hauled the product managers onstage in front of hundreds of coworkers for a blow-by-blow post-mortem. Veterans still cite it as the company's moment of radical transparency.
NVIDIA even cut a spoof video of the card powering an actual leaf blower.
In 2016, Huang personally drove a 370-pound DGX-1 to OpenAI. A billionaire CEO hand-delivering hardware.
Every Friday at 6 p.m., he reminds staff that "zero-billion-dollar markets" are the only ones worth chasing.
The man who washed dishes at that bullet-scarred Denny's still hand-delivers supercomputers and drags failures into bright lights.
Clarity and speed aren’t moats to NVIDIA. They’re just par for the course.
Original post by Grant Lee on LinkedIn. Follow him @thisisgrantlee for more great content. I’m just sharing (stealing) it for investors here on @X because $NVDA has changed my life.
Nvidia couldn’t use their original name NVision because it was already used by a toilet paper company.
Is that toilet paper company still in business? Yes.
Would they be interested in turning the Nvidia origin story into free, good natured publicity?
Let’s see…
@MarioNawfal And to think… their original name of NVision was taken from them… by a toilet paper company!
If they haven’t already bought that toilet paper company and stocked their headquarters with it, they should
And to think… their original name of NVision was taken from them… by a toilet paper company!
If they haven’t already bought that toilet paper company and stocked their headquarters with it, they should
🇺🇸 One company is now worth the equivalent of roughly 16% of the entire U.S. economy’s annual output.
Nvidia’s market cap has climbed to around $5.2 trillion, making it the most valuable company on the planet.
It’s swallowed the stock market too.
Nvidia alone is about 8% of the S&P 500, the biggest slice any one company has held in decades.
Put $100 into an S&P 500 fund and about $8 of it is Nvidia.
That also makes it bigger than entire S&P sectors. Nvidia alone outweighs energy, utilities and real estate.
The concentration cuts both ways. One bad Nvidia earnings call doesn’t just hit Nvidia anymore, it can drag the whole index with it.
A huge chunk of America now owns Nvidia without ever choosing to buy Nvidia.
Sources: @KobeissiLetter, CryptoBriefing, The Tradable, StockAnalysis / Writer: Julie
Just found out Nvidia went as far as to name an event $nvision back in 2008.
They were obsessed with the name they couldn't get.
Fun fact: they had "fly me to the moon" playing there.
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