The way he saved the company taught Huang one of the most important and least appreciated lessons in business. “You can’t discount the kindness of people when you’re starting your company," Huang said on a Sequoia Capital podcast last year. As a boy in postwar Japan, Irimajiri dreamed of being an aeronautical engineer from the day he read about Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. But if it stopped working on the Sega chip, it would be out of money. He lost touch with the CEO of Nvidia until Irimajiri was asked to organize a seminar on AI in 2017.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 18, 2024 08:54 UTC