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Jensen Huang

06/24/11

@ Stanford Online

When starting Nvidia, we had to convince venture capitalists of the potential market size for our technology, which was initially perceived as zero.

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Jen-Hsun Huang: Stanford student and Entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA

@ Stanford Online

Jen-Hsun Huang: Stanford student and Entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA

06/24/11

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