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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
2 Aug 2022 Acquired From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)
“There's a Jensen Huang building at Stanford, and it's not because Stanford took equity at NVIDIA in the early days.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 2 Aug 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Famously, Stanford only took 1% of Google when it was a Stanford graduate research project, when most universities want 25%–50%-plus of anything that they call tech transfer. It's not even like, oh, it was your idea in the first place and we'd like the piece of it because it was developed here. It's like, oh, we're transferring it out into a company. It's right there in the language. Jensen Huang was a grad student at Stanford, as we talked about, while he's starting NVIDIA. There's a Jensen Huang building at Stanford, and it's not because Stanford took equity at NVIDIA in the early days. The inertia behind some of these really good, important early decisions is incredible. Once you get it right, these flywheels develop and they're just so powerful. They're powerful for your community, they're powerful for the country, and we need as much of it as we can get.…
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