The tower of NVIDIA
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today on the show, David Rosenthal, one half of the tech podcast Acquired, explains how NVIDIA's founder Jensen Huang laid the groundwork for the company's meteoric rise, and why there may be obstacles ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. All right, we have a riddle for you. See if you can guess what we're talking about today. |
| 0:17.0 | I was born at a Denny's restaurant. My name is Latin for envy. |
| 0:22.0 | I played a lot of video games in my younger years. Today I'm |
| 0:25.3 | more into poetry and translation. I'm 31 years old and I've been down and out |
| 0:30.4 | so many times that my unofficial motto is that I'm 30 days from going out of business. |
| 0:36.9 | Still don't have it? What if we said last week for a moment I was the most valuable company on the planet. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah that's right the answer is the computer chip designer |
| 0:49.0 | invidia and invidious chips are the leading choice for artificial intelligence developers. |
| 0:55.0 | In the last couple of years, Envidia's sales have shot up like a jet plane. |
| 0:59.0 | Its stock price, more like a rocket. |
| 1:02.0 | But there are several chip companies out there, |
| 1:04.2 | like AMD and others. |
| 1:06.2 | So why is NVIDIA the one dominating the AI scene? |
| 1:10.3 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Whelan Wong. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Darren Woods. Today on the show, Invidia. |
| 1:16.0 | We learn about how this company went from selling niche graphics cards for gaming |
| 1:20.0 | to becoming the biggest company in the world. |
| 1:23.6 | And we ask whether NVIDIA has the most |
| 1:26.2 | to defend its very valuable castle. |
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| 1:36.9 | managing your money in different currencies easy. With Wise, you can send and |
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