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David Rosenthal: belief

28 Mar 2022 Acquired Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

“I think maybe this is where Jensen and the NVIDIA story bridge from the obvious investment market to bet on, team to bet on, to go all-star engineers to go build this graphics card.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Mar 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…ZipDash. ZipDash, yes. They were all $20–$30 million acquisitions. Amazing. That's what's so cool about this. I think maybe this is where Jensen and the NVIDIA story bridge from the obvious investment market to bet on, team to bet on, to go all-star engineers to go build this graphics card. Nobody really could have seen the graphics were going to become a lot more than games. You maybe could have seen it. There was SGI, Hollywood, and Jurassic Park. There were some military applications for computer graphics, but very few. Even Jensen and NVIDIA, they were video games, so the thing. Fortunately, that became the biggest entertainment medium. Even if that was your only market...…

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