Nvidia's Stock Price Evolution

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It was paradime, right that called all their in one of their funds and put it into bit coin when it was like three thousand dollars a coin or something. As sat we all should have been doing this. Soi literally invidiou stock in 20, like, recent like this is now known 20 12, 13, 14 15. It doesn't trade above like, five bucks a share. And invidia to day, as we record this is, i think, about two 20 a share. The high in the past year has been well over 300, like, if you realized what was going on. We're watching this freaking magic happen using their hardware, using their sopho

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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