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Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022): The Complete History and Strategy

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By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia. ‍ Links: Carve Outs: Sponsors: We finally did it. After five years and over 100 episodes, we decided to formalize the answer to Acquired’s most frequently asked question: “what are the best acquisitions of all time?” Here it is: The Acquired Top Ten. You can listen to the full episode (above, which includes honorable mentions), or read our quick blog post below. Note: we ranked the list by our estimate of absolut

Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 10 | episode 6 Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) Ben: Welcome to season 10 episode 6 of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks about them. I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures. David: I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco. Ben: We are

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