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NVIDIA Corp: What’s in a name?

NVIDIA Corporation’s (Nasdaq: NVDA) name was derived from the Latin word “invidia,” meaning “envy”. Company pioneers believed their product’s visual experience would make competitors “green with envy”.   NVIDIA was founded by Jensen Huang (the company’s current CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, in 1993 following a meeting at a Denny’s restaurant […]

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First lithium stock bubble sparked by this world changing event?

Lithium Corporation of America shares soared 461% for the year in 1954 due to the company’s connection to the U.S. hydrogen bomb project, code name Operation Castle.    UCLA professor Armen Alchian, while working at RAND, successfully identified lithium deuteride as the fusion fuel through publicly available financial data.    At the time, Lithium

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