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Ep 98. The Power Behind the Chip: Why NVIDIA Is Dominating the World
We trace NVIDIA’s path from gaming graphics to the engine of modern AI, and we pull out practical lessons on focus, moats, and long-term thinking. We explain why CUDA, ecosystem control, and patient strategy created enduring advantage and where the next wave could go.
• origins of NVIDIA and early internet context
• GPUs as parallel processing powerhouses
• the leap from gaming to AI and cloud
• CUDA as the developer moat and lock-in
• market leadership in AI hardware and platforms
• lessons on focus, conviction, and compounding
• where NVIDIA moves next across robotics, cloud, healthcare
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Welcome to the Go Big With Gibb Podcast, where we talk to professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs about their big wins. Welcome back to this episode of Go Big With Gibb, where we talk about business investing and building generational wealth through focus, strategy, and conviction. Today we're diving into one of the most fascinating success stories of all time. NVIDIA, a company that went from powering video games to powering the entire digital revolution. This is a story of innovation, timing, and vision, and it holds powerful lessons for investors and entrepreneurs alike. Let's start with where it all began. NVIDIA was founded in 1993 by Jin Sun Hawong, Chris Malikowski, and Curtis Priam. At the time, the internet was just emerging and personal computing was still in its early days. Their goal was simple but bold, to create specialized chips that could process chips faster than any standard computer processor. Those chips became known as GPUs, graphic processing units. And while they were originally designed for video games, Nvidia's founders understood something that few others did at the time, that graphics chips could eventually power far more than entertainment. Here's where the genius of NVIDIA really shows. Their GPUs turned out to be incredibly good at doing one thing, parallel processing. That means handling thousands of calculations at once. That same technology powers artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, cloud computing, and advanced data analytics. When ChatGPT, Tesla's self-driving systems, or Amazon's AI models run computations, they're probably doing it using NVIDIA chips. So NVIDIA didn't just build a better graphics card, they built the engine of the AI revolution. Nvidia's success isn't luck, it's strategy. They control both the hardware and the software ecosystem. Their CUDA platform, launched back in 2006, became the gold standard for developers building on GPUs. That's the MOAT. Once companies and researchers built their systems on CUDA, switching to another platform became nearly impossible. Today, NVIDIA owns more than 80% of the global GPU market for AI applications. And while other chipmakers are trying to catch up, NVIDIA keeps innovating faster, releasing new architectures like Hopper and Blackwell that push the limits of computing power. There's a powerful lesson here. Nvidia didn't chase trends, they created them. They focused relentlessly on one thing, solving problems with world-class technology. When everyone else was optimizing for the present, Jensen Huang was building for the future. That's how you create generational wealth by having vision, conviction, and patience to let your ideas compound over time. Here's the amazing part Nvidia isn't done. They're leading the way in AI infrastructure, robotics, cloud computing, and even digital healthcare. They're not just selling chips, they're selling the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush. And as AI continues to transform every industry on earth, NVIDIA is positioned at the center of it all. So what can we learn from NVIDIA? That greatness comes from focus. That real innovation compounds over decades. And the biggest opportunities often hide in plain sight. If you have the courage to think long term, I'm Gib Irons. Thanks for tuning in to Go Big With Gibb. Until next time, go build your wealth, stay curious, and keep thinking big. If you haven't already, go follow us on social media at Gib Irons. We'll see you next time.