I haven’t read this book, but doesn’t the title sound a bit like he’s taking credit for the company’s success? NVIDIA was a good company from the very beginning. I don’t know where their CEO was back then, maybe he was still wetting his pants.
Jensen Huang
Chris Malachowsky
Curtis Priem
Malachowsky is still there as a Fellow, member of executive staff and a senior technology executive for the company.
Priem left the company in 2006 and sold all his shares.
It's just that when the company was just one gpu maker in a crowed, tiny and not very profitable market, no-one paid much attention.
Now they are making the shovels and pickaxes for the current gold rush, and correspondingly are competing for the spot of the largest company in the world, a lot more people are paying attention to his antics.