How NVIDIA Rose from $600 to $5 Trillion | The Jensen Huang Story

What if I told you that the world's most valuable company started with just $600 at a Denny's restaurant?

This is the incredible story of Jensen Huang and NVIDIA — from a 9-year-old immigrant boy cleaning toilets at a Kentucky reform school to becoming the CEO of a $5 TRILLION company that powers every major AI system on the planet.

In this documentary, we explore:
→ Jensen's childhood: Sent to America at age 9, mistakenly enrolled in a reform school where he cleaned toilets daily while his roommate taught him to bench press
→ The Denny's founding: How three engineers with $600 started NVIDIA in a restaurant booth on April 5, 1993
→ Three near-death experiences: The NV1 disaster, the Sega lifeline, and the RIVA 128 gamble that saved the company
→ The invention of the GPU: How NVIDIA created an entirely new product category in 1999
→ The CUDA bet: The $500M investment that Wall Street hated but changed computing forever
→ The AI revolution: How a 2012 neural network called AlexNet proved GPUs were the future of AI
→ The ChatGPT explosion: From $400B to $5 TRILLION in just 3 years

Whether you're interested in business, technology, AI, or inspiring success stories — this is a journey you don't want to miss.

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📌 KEY FACTS FROM THIS VIDEO:

• NVIDIA was founded on April 5, 1993 at Denny's in San Jose
• Starting capital: Just $600
• Jensen Huang was only 30 years old when he became CEO
• NVIDIA nearly went bankrupt THREE times before succeeding
• The company invented the term "GPU" in 1999
• CUDA (2006) was a $500M bet that Wall Street criticized
• AlexNet (2012) proved GPUs were perfect for AI
• Market Cap Journey: $400B (2022) → $1T (2023) → $3T (2024) → $5T (2025)
• Jensen Huang's net worth: ~$160 billion
• Fun fact: Jensen and AMD CEO Lisa Su are related (first cousins once removed)

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