NVIDIA WAS ABLE TO AVOID similar pitfalls because it had a technical CEO in Jensen. “When you meet Jensen Huang, even with dozens of other graphics companies, you realize this is a guy you want to do business with,” said Tench Coxe, one of Nvidia’s early investors, who continues to serve on its board today. “What made him great is he is an engineer and he is a computer scientist.”4 Former product manager Ali Simnad recalled working on a Wi-Fi product that was never released, in part because of Jensen’s intense diligence. “Jensen was very scary,” he said.5 “You would go to a meeting and he
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