TOM LEONARD: Meet the £90bn Taylor Swift of Tech who went from washing dishes in a San Jose Denny's to running the world's most valuable company Nvidia - that made a fortune in AI By Tom Leonard Published: 22:28, 20 June 2024 | Updated: 22:31, 20 June 2024 e-mail View comments Great ventures often spring from humble beginnings and that's certainly true for Nvidia, the Silicon Valley microchip giant newly crowned the world's most valuable public company. The tech juggernaut's figurehead and co-founder dreamed up the future behemoth during his 30th birthday - at a branch of the U.S.
roadside diner chain Denny's outside San Jose, California . Jensen Huang had worked at Denny's first as a dishwasher and then as a waiter. But, on that night in 1993, his mind was focused on weightier matters than whether or not Table 5 had ordered the cheesecake.
He and two friends, chip designers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, 'brainstormed and fantasised' about going into business together and eventually used $40,000 of their own money to start a company now worth a staggering $3.34 trillion (£2.6 trillion).
For its first few decades, Nvidia devoted itself to producing high-end computer-graphics hardware for the video-game sector. Then, in around 2016, Nvidia made the fateful decision to refocus on the emerging field of generative artificial intelligence, or AI . Jensen Huang (pictured) had worked at Denny's first as a dishwasher and then as a waiter Huang and two friends 'brainstormed and.
