Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met former Sega CEO Shoichiro Irimajiri and game designer Yu Suzuki in Tokyo to thank them for a $5 million investment in 1995 that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy after the compa
Amazing to see this! I worked in AM3 in 1995 and had written a condolence letter in English for Irimajiri-shacho on the death of Ayrton Senna. I wonder if I saw Jensen in passing when he visited. I also got my voice in Suzuki-san's AM2 VirtuCop game (as well as in AM3's SEGA Rally Championship).
Jensen is thanking him for selling Nvidia stocks early. Sega sold Nvidia stocks in 1999 for $15 million, had Sega held on to the stocks, it would have been worth over a $1 trillion dollars today
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I hope some serious House of The Dead was played on that cabinet behind them afterwards 😆