when Corrigan heard about Jensen’s vision for a new generation of graphics chips, he asked him a question: “Can I invest?”6 Corrigan grilled Jensen on the start-up’s addressable market and strategic positioning: “Who plays games?” “Give me an example of a gaming company.” Jensen responded that if they built the technology, more game companies would be founded. Existing companies in the space, such as S3 and Matrox, typically made 2-D accelerated-graphics cards, and games with 3-D graphics were only beginning to take off.
