Jensen Huang spent 33 years building Nvidia. It took one day to lose it. Elon already wants him.
He was also the first person to believe in Jensen.
“Nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders, not one.”
That was 2016. Jensen had just built the DGX-1, a $300,000 AI supercomputer. Elon was his only buyer.
Jensen boxed it up himself and drove it to a small nonprofit in San Francisco. That nonprofit was OpenAI.
The math since then:
2016: $300,000 for 1 petaflop
2025: $4,000 for the same petaflop
75x cheaper in 9 years
Yesterday Nvidia’s stock opened down 13%.
Hours earlier, someone asked Elon to hire him.
His answer: “It would be an honor.”
His first customer might be his next boss.