Cover of The Thinking Machine

The Thinking Machine

by Stephen Witt
BIOGRAPHY AUDIOBOOK 2026-06-11 – 2026-06-17

Review

I picked it up because it seemed interesting. I guess I wanted to know more about Nvidia and Hwang.

The book is structured like how these books about charismatic founders usually are - but in interviewing the many people who did (and do) the work to make Nvidia what it is - it just went on to show, it’s not a single person doing the work, it’s the whole team.

Nvidia got lucky (if you can call it luck) with spearheading and being a monopoly in parallel computing. There was a long time of them doing it without any obvious benefits. But then AI happened, and Nvidia became a 3 Trillion company.

It is a fun read. I like books like these, with some view into how these massive corporations work.

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