"Still waiting for a smile out of you. You're up 2-0. What's the story? Are you not happy?"
KOBE: "What's there to be happy about?"
"You're up 2-0."
KOBE: "Job's not finished. Job finished? I don't think so."
This moment happened 17 years ago today!
@Outkick Going so fast he didn’t even flinch/react. And then he immediately got up off the ice after going down covering his nose area and skated off hunched over.
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At nine years old, the man dancing in this video was the only kid cleaning toilets at a Kentucky reform school.
His parents were raising two sons in Bangkok during a coup and decided it had stopped being safe. They put Jensen and his older brother on a plane to an uncle in Tacoma with almost no money. The uncle went looking for a cheap school that would take two foreign boys and landed on Oneida Baptist Institute in Clay County, one of the poorest counties in America. The uncle, who thought the place was a respectable boarding academy, had actually enrolled them in a reform school for difficult kids.
Jensen was the youngest student on campus. His roommate was a 17-year-old recovering from a knife fight, still wrapped in tape, the toughest kid there. Boys carried knives. To reach class you crossed a rope footbridge while older kids shook it to throw you off. He got called slurs every single day. His assigned job was scrubbing the bathrooms for a hundred teenage boys, while his brother worked the tobacco fields the school ran to fund itself.
Two years in, his parents reached the US, saw what was happening, and pulled them out. He tells the whole story cheerfully to this day. His words: everybody had chores, we just figured that was what kids did.
As a teenager he bused tables at Denny's. In 1993 he cofounded a chip company from a booth at another Denny's. That company is Nvidia. It became the first business in history to pass $4 trillion in value, then the first to pass $5 trillion, and it now pulls in more than $215 billion a year selling the chips every AI lab on the planet runs on. Jensen owns enough of it to sit among the ten richest people alive, worth north of $165 billion.
In 2019 the reform school named a building after him. He and his wife paid for it with a $2 million grant, writing a check to the institution where he scrubbed toilets and got called slurs at age nine.
That is who you are watching dance. The kid who cleaned bathrooms for a hundred teenagers and crossed that bridge every day grew up to build the most valuable company in history. When you have survived that and built this, you stop dancing for anyone but yourself.
@BullflowIO And that whale that owns 26,700 Jun18'26 400 calls and is more than likely still holding, has now turned the initial ~$56.07M bet into ~$1.5B. Truly legendary 👏🔥🚀
@The_AI_Investor Congrats 👍👏 My portfolio has never been diversified...far from it 😂 As Warren Buffet once said: "We think diversification makes very little sense for anyone that knows what they're doing...diversification is protection against ignorance."