Fortune, Dec 1, 2017

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(1) cover:
BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang[;] How his company is powering the age of AI

(2) Businessperson of the Year. at page 53
http://fortune.com/businessperson-of-the-year/
("It starts with results. Each December, when we choose Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, we focus first on CEOs who are delivering the goods. * * * ")

(3) Andrew Nusca, Jensen Huang; Leading a tectonic shift in tech. at page 54.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/16/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang/

Note:
(a) Online, paragraph 1 looks the same as other paragraphs: "The cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software maker Nvidia saw the future of computing more than a decade ago, and began developing products that could power the artificial intelligence era. Thanks to that vision, and relentless execution, his chipmaker today is perhaps the hottest company in Silicon Valley. And it may just be getting started."

In print, however, this paragraph is all upper case, and placed underneath the title, byline, and subtitle  (in that order) on the same page. Paragraph 2 started at the top of the following page: page 55.

(b) "Halfway through dinner [with this reporter] at Evvia, a bustling Greek restaurant in downtown Palo Alto that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs used to frequent, Jen-Hsun 'Jensen' [this indicates the name one goes by] Huang rolls up his shirtsleeve to show me his tattoo. It’s tribal in style, with thick curves extending across his shoulder cap. * * * 'So, I really want to extend it [tattoo, beyond shoulder cap all the way to wrist],' he says with a glint in his eye, gesturing along the length of his arm. 'I actually kinda do. I would love to. But getting it really, really hurt. I was crying like a baby.' * * * Huang's two adult children, speakeasy proprietor ­Spencer [a son] and hospitality professional Madison [a daughter[, also have tattoos. * * * 'Every six months we have an off-site,' Huang says, leaning back in his chair to tell the story. 'And at one, someone said, "What are we gonna do when the stock price hits $100?" That was two splits ago. One person said they'd shave their head, or paint their hair blue, or get a mohawk, or something. And another [all talking about the two children of his] said they'd get a nipple ring.' "
(i)
(A) Jensen (surname)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_(surname)
(of German and Scandinavian origin; son of Jens)
(B) Jens (given name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_(given_name)
(ii) pronunciations:
(A) Jensen is pronounced differently in US and in European continent. In US, the pronunciation is similar to Jen-Hsun. In Germany (yen-zuhn) and in Denmark (yen-suhn):

Jensen
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/jensen
(B) Joanne Bogart (whose initials are JRB), German Pronunciation; Tips for singers. Stanford University, undated
https://web.stanford.edu/~jrb/reference/german.html
("J is pronounced like English consonant Y * * * S followed by a vowel is voiced (sounds like English Z)" )
(C) German Easy Consonants. GermanLanguage.com, undated
http://www.germanlanguageguide.c ... easy-consonants.asp
("J is pronounced like y in yes * * * S is pronounced like: • z in haze (when preceding a vowel)  • otherwise: s in sit")

(iii) Search images.google.com with (shoulder cap) and you will know. A knee cap is, in kanji, 膝蓋骨 (pronunciation: shitsu-gai-kotsu; Chinese pronunciation for each kanji).
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/膝蓋骨
(iv) speakeasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakeasy
(Speakeasies largely disappeared after Prohibition was ended in 1933, and the term is now used to describe some retro style bars)
(v) "Every six months we have an off-site"
(A) Googling, I do not find off-site as a noun.
(B) off-site (adj or adv)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/off-site
(examples)
(C) off-site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-site
(may refer to off-site software development; off-site data protection; off-site art exhibit or off-site art show etc)

(c) "Most Fortune 500 CEOs over 50 don't have tattoos, let alone of the logos of the companies they run. But Huang * * * isn't most Fortune 500 CEOs. For starters, he's the rare cofounder still running his company 24 years later. He is both a trained electrical engineer (Oregon State [BS in electrical engineering, 1984l his family, meaning parents, lived in Oregon at the time]; Stanford [MS in EE, 1992]), and a formidable executive who leads employees with encouragement, inquiry, and often flurries of vacation emails. (Sent during his [vacations], not theirs.)"
(i) Nvidia's logo is the green thing at the top of thee table. See Nvidia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia
(ii) That (logo) is what "tribal in style" means in (b).

(d) "Over the past three full fiscal years, it has increased sales by an average of 19% and profits by an astonishing 56% annually. * * * In its past four quarters, it has generated total sales of $9 billion and profits of $2.6 billion. * * * Nvidia's share price, just two years ago hovering around $30, was recently over $200. Its market capitalization, at about $130 billion, is approaching that of IBM and McDonald's.  Nvidia meanwhile has so far managed to retain its roughly 70% market share in GPUs"
(i) Nvidia has had four stock splits: June 27, 2000 (2 for 1); Sept 17, 2001 (2 for 1); Apr 7, 2006 (2 for 1); and Sept 11, 2007 (3 for 2: "for each 2 shares of Nvidia pre-split, the shareholder now owned 3 shares").
(ii) stock split
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_split
(iii) Forbes.com estimates his net worth as $4.9b (as of today).

(e) "Battling with the world’s biggest tech companies for A.I. supremacy was far from Jensen Huang's mind when he cofounded Nvidia with friends Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in 1993. At the time, Malachowsky and Priem were engineers at Sun Microsystems, and Huang was a director ['Director of Sales responsible for Sun Microsystems': en.wikipedia.org] at San Jose chipmaker LSI Logic. Malachowsky and Priem had lost a political battle within Sun over the direction of its technological development and were itching to leave. Huang, just 29 years old, was on firmer ground. The three men met at a Denny's restaurant near Huang's home to discuss what they believed was the proper direction for the next wave of computing: accelerated, or graphics-based, computing. Huang walked away from the meal with enough conviction to leave his position at LSI. * * * With $40,000 in the bank, Nvidia was born. The company initially had no name. 'We couldn't think of one, so we named all of our files NV, as in "next version," '  Huang says. A need to incorporate the company prompted the cofounders to review all words with those two letters, leading them to 'invidia,' the Latin word for 'envy.' It stuck.  Nvidia's first product, a multimedia card for personal computers called NV1, arrived in 1995"
(i)
(A) Sun Microsystems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems (1982-2010
(acquired by Oracle); The Sun name is derived from the initials of the Stanford University Network)
(B) Stanford University Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_Network
(ii)
(A) LSI Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSI_Corporation
(1981-2014; based in San Jose, Calif; acquired by Braodcom Ltd, formerly Avago Technologies)
(B) Rob Walker with Nancy Tersini, Silicon Destiny: The story of application specific integrated circuits and LSI Logic Corporation. Milpitas, Calif: CMC Publications, 1992, at page 248
https://books.google.com/books?i ... acronym&f=false
("LSI  Large Scale Integration. An integrated circuit of at least 500 gates on a single chip. Also an acronym for LSI Logic Corporation")
(iii) Latin-English dictionary:
* invidia (noun feminine; from Latin [verb] invideō envy)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invidia

(f) "A successful IPO on the Nasdaq in 1999 set in motion a flurry of milestones for Nvidia. That year it released the GeForce 256, billed as the world's first GPU. In 2006 it introduced CUDA, a parallel computing architecture that allowed researchers to run extremely complex exercises on thousands of GPUs, taking the chips out of the sole realm of video games and making them accessible for all types of computing. In 2014, the company revived a failing bid for the smartphone business by repositioning those chips, called Tegra, for automotive use. Over time, these moves proved prescient * * * Huang doesn’t keep an office, preferring to move around the building nomad-like, setting up shop in a variety of conference rooms."
(g) on grand opening day of the new Nvidia headquarters Endeavor: "When I finally locate Huang, he is wearing his signature leather moto jacket and nibbling on breaded chicken strips from a cup as he strides across the sprawling cafeteria with at least two dozen employees and their families in tow. At Huang's side are his wife, Lori, as well as his son and daughter, who flew in from Taipei and Paris, respectively, to surprise their father. * * * [after attendees of the grand opening left] Huang leans toward me and asks me to pose the questions I had intended to get to earlier [question asked and partially answered] By now my head is spinning * * * But Huang is still rolling [then glasses fell to the floor]  The space falls to a hush and Huang pauses, losing his train of thought."
(i) "moto (short for 'motorcycle') jacket": from the Web.
(ii) The "rolling" --meaning "keep on going." "keep trucking" -- refers to the train of thought.

truck (vi): "to roll along especially in an easy untroubled way"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck