Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995
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Nvidia's origin story — a $5M lifeline from Sega in 1995 — is a reminder that strategic customers can be existential capital. If you're building deep tech, treat early design partners as investors in disguise and structure those relationships with long-term upside on both sides.
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