Nvidia's sustained paranoia about existential risk and constant operational vigilance has enabled it to build a $4.7 trillion company despite multiple near-death experiences

"Jensen Huang has spent 33 years telling himself that Nvidia is about a month away from collapse. The phrase has outlasted the botched Sega contract that nearly finished the company in 1996, the layoffs that followed it, and the AI boom that has since pushed Nvidia's market value to roughly $4.7 trillion."