Biography | Jensen Huang — The Booth at 2484 Berryessa Road Where Nvidia Got a Name

People treat the Voyager and Endeavor buildings in Santa Clara as the rooms Nvidia always occupied. The company was agreed here, in a corner booth at Denny's, 2484 Berryessa Road, East San Jose. In late 1992 Jensen Huang, then thirty and running CoreWare at LSI Logic, sat with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem from Sun Microsystems. They wanted a chip that would put realistic three-dimensional graphics on a personal computer. Huang chose the diner because the coffee was cheap and nobody asked them to leave. They ordered a Lumberjack Slam, Moons Over My Hammy and a Super Bird. The first capital was six hundred dollars in cash for a lawyer at Cooley Godward. On 5 April 1993 Huang signed the articles. The name came from Latin invidia, envy. The first office was a rented condominium in Fremont. On 26 September 2023 the franchisee screwed a plaque above the same booth. The diner is still open twenty-four hours. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, East San Jose commercial strip along Berryessa Road