NVIDIA was founded in 1993 when Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem met at a Denny’s restaurant near San Jose. With just $40,000 in starting capital, they sketched out their vision for the company over diner food. In its early days, the silicon chip industry was laboratory-based, empirical-based. Since then, the industry has shifted…
At AWS re:Invent, Pfizer exec frames digital as a core business strategy
In the midst of a global pandemic, Pfizer, under the leadership of its chief digital and technology officer Lidia Fonseca, achieved what was once thought impossible. The company, with the partnership of BioNTech, developed a COVID-19 vaccine in only 269 days, a process that traditionally would have taken 8 to 10 years. While prior research…