Nvidia CEO Thanks Early Lifeline Investment
tkasasagi · x · 2026-07-16
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met in Tokyo with former Sega CEO Shoichiro Irimajiri and game designer Yu Suzuki to thank them for their $5 million investment in NVIDIA back in 1995.
This investment came at a time when NVIDIA was on the brink of bankruptcy after failing to deliver chips ordered by Sega, and is regarded as a pivotal turning point in the company's early fate.
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