NVIDIA and the Thirty-Day Company

In nineteen ninety-six, a young chip company in Silicon Valley was almost out of time. Its first big idea had collided with Microsoft, the market had moved the other way, and payroll was closing in. According to The New Yorker, Jensen Huang looked at the odds of the next chip working and called it fifty-fifty. Then he made the bet anyway, because, as he put it, the company was going out of business either way.