Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia over coffee at a Denny's diner in 1993, betting on computer graphics while others chased software trends. In 1999, Nvidia introduced the GeForce 256, the world's first GPU, which laid the foundation for modern AI workloads. In 2006, Huang invested billions into CUDA, a parallel computing platform for general mathematical tasks, despite Wall Street criticism and minimal return on investment. When researchers trained deep neural networks on GPUs in 2012, they used CUDA. Huang has remained CEO for over three decades, navigating disruptions from cryptocurrency miners and supply chain crunches, and Nvidia pushed past a historic five-trillion-dollar valuation milestone.