Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem — gathered at the diner, now the heart of Silicon Valley, to discuss building a computer chip that would make graphics for video games faster and more realistic. That conversation, and the ones that followed, led to the founding of Nvidia, the tech company that soared through the ranks of the stock market to briefly top Microsoft as the most valuable company in the S&P 500 this year.
Nvidia has a market cap or net worth of $3.41 trillion as of December 11, 2024, now worth as much as Apple and Microsoft. The poster child of the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia, whose hardware is now found in all Tesla vehicles, may bring the next industrial revolution in the tech world. It is successful than anybody could have ever imagined because of its charismatic leader.
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But what makes Nvidia the most valuable company in the world? One of the secrets might be T5T emails, essential to CEO Jensen Huang's success. For decades, Nvidia employees have been sending notes known as T5T or Top 5 things- things they are working on, things they are thinking about, things they are noticing in their corners of the business, reports Wall Street Journal. And he reads them all. When you are watching TV, Jensen Huang is reading T5T emails.
Roughly 30,000 employees at every level of the company sends emails to their teams and executives that even CEO can access. Which he does- every single