Jensen Huang

And, um,

For him to ask is, I was humbled and really honored.

But the work that I'm doing here is really important.

And I've seen, you know, in my mind anyways, in my mind's eye, what NVIDIA was going to be and what the impact that we could have.

And it was really important work.

And it's my responsibility, you know, my sole responsibility to make this happen.

And so I declined it, you know, not because it wasn't an incredible offer.

It's an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn't take it.

Yeah.

Our single most important property as a company is the install base of our computing platform.

Our single most important thing today is the install base of CUDA.

Now, the reason why 20 years ago, of course, there was no install base.

But what makes, and if somebody came up with a Gouda or a Tuda, it wouldn't make any difference at all.

And the reason for that is because it's never been just about the technology.

The technology, of course, was incredible visionary.

But it's the fact that the company was dedicated to it, stuck with it, expanded its reach.

It wasn't three people that made Kuda successful.

It was 43,000 people that made Kuda successful.

and the several million developers that believed in us, that trusted that we were going to continue to make CUDA 1, 2, 3, 13, that they decided to port and dedicate their software on top of it, their mountain of software on top of it.

And so the install base is the number one most important advantage.