The Economy & You He Bet $5 Million on a “Dead” Chip—Then Accidentally Built Nvidia’s AI Empire By Reeliy Explained September 27, 2026 Share In this video 0:00 The Denny's booth where Nvidia began0:35 Jensen Huang's reform school childhood1:20 Nvidia's first chip flops2:16 The Sega contract and the $5 million ask3:39 RIVA 128: one month from bankruptcy4:29 GeForce 256 and the first GPU5:32 CPU vs GPU and the CUDA gamble6:50 The Toronto breakthrough8:18 AlexNet and the birth of modern AI9:34 The $40 billion Arm deal10:33 The China chip ban11:17 The H800 loophole11:47 The $5 trillion AI empire Published September 27, 2026. Educational content, not financial advice.