Who Am I? Week #697

[kingchuck69]

Welcome to the 697th edition of Who Am I?, the weekly game where I dish out a daily clue to a subject and you have to guess who or what it is.

Every day, the clues get easier. The winner of this week's game gets a piece of my gratitude.

This week's subject is a THING.

CLUE #1: I was founded over 30 years ago.

 

[JHDK]

My dick?

You all don't have to guess now. That's clearly where King was going with this. His is the 69 king after all.

 

[HecticArt]

SkyMall

 

[Listener]

Keurig coffee maker

 

[scotchandcigar]

America Online

 

[Wolf]

Spirit Halloween stores

 

[Channel98]

Liberty Media Corporation, which was founded in 1991 and owns 84% of SiriusXM.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Sirius Satellite Radio

 

[kingchuck69]

CLUE #2: I changed my name because it sounded too close to a brand of a household item.

 

[JHDK]

You must have missed my guess from yesterday which is clearly correct but ok...

Electrasol.

 

[Wolf]

Zagg Inc

 

[HecticArt]

Amazon?

 

[kingchuck69]

CLUE #3: I was founded after a meeting at Denny's.

 

[JHDK]

Nvidia.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Nvidia.

Wow! Take that, No Winner!

 

[JHDK]

They were founded in 1993 after a meeting at Denny's but I didn't see what their original name was that was too close to a household item.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

They were founded in 1993 after a meeting at Denny's but I didn't see what their original name was that was too close to a household item.

At one point, Malachowsky and Priem wanted to call the company NVision, but that name was already taken by a manufacturer of toilet paper.[

Nvidia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kingchuck69]

Nvidia.

Congratulations, Koop!

This week's subject was Nvidia, the international tech company founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 1993. Its founders were Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.

As IRBS pointed out, Nvidia was supposed to be called NVision, but it also was the name of a brand of toilet paper. Instead, they chose Nvidia because "NV" was short for "next vision" and "invidia" was Latin for "envy".

The three founders met at a Denny's in 1993 in San Jose, CA. At the time, Malachowsky and Priem were unhappy with their jobs at Sun Microsystems. Huang worked at LSI and loved his job. However, the three came together and Nvidia was born.

Over the years, the company grew with their graphics acceleration chips, popular with gamers. But in recent years, their investment in AI technology made them a hot stock.

On March 1 of this year, Nvidia only became the third company in history to be worth $2 trillion. The other two? Apple and Microsoft.



New game next week!

 

[JHDK]

My dick?

Congratulations, Koop!

I knew it!

Thanks King, another fun week.

 

[HecticArt]

Congrats No Wi...... I mean, congrats Koop!

Well played. I skimmed right past Nvidia a couple of times and didn't even slow down to take a look.


Thanks for the game King!!!!