“When we were younger, Tae, we sucked at a lot of things. Nvidia wasn’t a great company on day one. We made it great over thirty-one years. It didn’t come out great,” he said. “You didn’t build NV1 because you were great. You didn’t build NV2 because you were great,” he said, referring to the company’s first two chip designs, both of which were flops that nearly killed Nvidia. “We survived ourselves. We were our own worst enemy.”
