In 1993, at a Denny’s diner in California, three engineers sat down over pancakes and came up with a bold idea: build a new kind of computer chip that would make graphics insanely fast and realistic 💨
Leading that vision was Jensen Huang, a Taiwanese-American who grew up washing dishes, studied engineering at Stanford, and dreamed of making computers visually intelligent 💡
He wasn’t born into wealth or privilege — he built everything from the ground up with grit, curiosity, and hustle.
That idea became NVIDIA 🤯
At the time, computers weren’t very good at handling rich visuals. Games were slow, 3D modeling was clunky, and most tech companies didn’t see graphics as a big deal. But Jensen did💡
He believed the future of computing would rely on visual intelligence — not just for games, but for science, creativity, and more ✨
So NVIDIA launched its first graphics card, the NV1. It wasn’t a big hit, but it was a starting point. The company kept pushing forward, obsessed with making computers faster, smarter, and more powerful 💪