Jensen Huang went all the way to Tokyo to say thank you to the man who handed him $5 million three decades ago. Without it, there would be no Nvidia. Back in the mid-90s, Nvidia was being paid by Sega to design the graphics chip for Sega's next console. But Nvidia had backed the wrong technology. The whole industry was moving the opposite way, and that chip would never work. Jensen had two options. Keep building it and fail, or walk away and run out of cash. Jensen went to Shoichiro Irimajiri, Sega's president, and was honest with him. Nvidia's approach was a mistake, and Sega should look for a different partner. Then he asked Sega for the money anyway. Without that money, Nvidia was done. Irimajiri agreed. Sega invested $5 million. Jensen later said that money bought Nvidia six months of life. They spent it building a new chip, the RIVA 128, which sold more than a million units and rescued the company. Today Nvidia is worth more than $4 trillion. This summer, at a Sega arcade in Tokyo, Jensen stood before Irimajiri and thanked him. Would you have been honest with your customer? Interested in the latest with ai/tech and business? Follow @GeniusGTX and never fall behind. I track ChatGPT, Claude, and how every new agent is changing how we work and think, then hand you the pure signals.