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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
28 Mar 2022 Acquired Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
“The fiscal year then ends January 31st, 1999. This is right before they go public or right as they go public.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 28 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Okay, David. Xbox comes out, NVIDIA has a card in there that is the GPU of the Xbox that has programmable shaders. Rather than literally just spitting out triangles to put on screen, they actually are running these little programs in shaders. It's super cool. What happens after that? Basically, the company goes supernova in a good way at this point in time. The fiscal year then ends January 31st, 1999. This is right before they go public or right as they go public. They did $158 million in revenue. The next year, the fiscal year ended January 31st, 2000. The calendar year in 1999, they did $375 million in revenue, more than double that year. The next year, they do $735 million in revenue. The year after that, which is basically the calendar year 2001, the year the Xbox comes out, they do just about $1.4 billion dollars in revenue. Which makes them the fastest semiconductor ever to reach a billion in revenue and gets them added to the S&P 500.…
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