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“I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.”

— Jensen Huang, on building resiliency

The history of the world’s most valuable company is a study in how improbable its survival was, let alone its success.

In The Nvidia Way, Tae Kim tells the story of how Nvidia, founded in 1993, emerged from the small and volatile market for graphics chips — an industry in which everyone was always “thirty days from going out of business,” as Jensen Huang constantly reminded his employees.

That was more or less true for much of Nvidia’s existence, not only because money was…

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