00:00My job at Denny's, you know, I was incredibly shy and it got me to be able to interact with people
00:07a lot better. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong is number one on Fortune's most powerful people in business
00:13list, and he's worth $157 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But his journey
00:19to success started with humble beginnings. Wong was born in Taiwan and later moved to Washington
00:24State when he was nine. His first job was as a dishwasher at Denny's, where he was later promoted
00:28to Busboy and Waiter. He attended Oregon State University prior to receiving a master's degree
00:34from Stanford University. He dreamt up NVIDIA in a Denny's booth with his two co-founders,
00:39Chris Malachowski and Curtis Prem, in 1993. Today, the company is a market cap of $4.3 trillion.
00:46After decades of naysayers dismissing the value of Wong's specialized computer chips,
00:51that hardware is now the most coveted by companies in developing artificial intelligence.
00:55That's why NVIDIA is the most valuable company traded on US exchanges today.
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