DURING ONE OF NVIDIA’S VERY FIRST board meetings, director Harvey Jones, a former CEO of a leading chip-design-software company called Synopsys, asked Jensen about the NV1: “How would you position this?” At the time, Jensen didn’t realize that Jones was not merely asking about the NV1’s feature set or product specifications. He was asking him to consider how Nvidia would sell the new chip in a highly competitive industry.
