33 years, one company.
In 1993, Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. He led it for the next 33 years, longer than almost any founder-CEO in tech. In the early years NVIDIA's first chip failed and the company came close to running out of money. He kept it alive, bet everything on the next chip, and won.
Timeline
- 1999: NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 256 and called it the world's first GPU.
- 2006: He bet on CUDA so that anyone could program GPUs for more than graphics. For years Wall Street saw it as an expensive side project.
- 2012: That bet paid off when researchers trained a breakthrough deep-learning model on NVIDIA GPUs. The modern AI era started on hardware he insisted on building.
- Today: Many of the world's leading AI models are trained on the platform he spent two decades building, and NVIDIA became one of the most valuable companies in history.
Why NVIDIA needs him now.
NVIDIA's advantage is not a single chip. It is a long-term vision across hardware, software and the developer community, and Jensen has driven it since day one. AI is in its most competitive moment yet, and the company needs the leader who saw it coming 20 years early. The market reacted immediately when he left, and so did the developers who build on NVIDIA every day.
We respect the board's responsibility and its process. We are asking the board to consider what NVIDIA loses without its founder, and to bring Jensen Huang back as CEO.
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