Denny's Reportedly Removed the Plaque Marking Nvidia's Founding Booth, Then Said It Would Go Back Up
BREAKING: Denny’s has reportedly removed the plaque honoring the booth where Jensen Huang & his co-founders came up with Nvidia.
Context
The plaque marks Nvidia's founding story, and its brief removal became a viral gauge of how fast views of Huang shifted after his resignation.
Jensen Huang and his cofounders planned Nvidia at a Denny's in San Jose, and the restaurant later put up a plaque at the booth. The photo in Polymarket's post shows Huang holding a plaque that reads "The booth that launched a $1 trillion company." Its reported removal came a day after Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO.
Deep dive
Polymarket posted on November 13 that Denny's had reportedly removed the plaque honoring the booth where Huang and his cofounders came up with Nvidia. Andrew Curran also wrote that the commemorative plaque above the booth at the San Jose Denny's had been removed.
Hours later, Curran posted an update saying Denny's had "cracked" and that the plaque was going back up, and Polymarket posted that Denny's would reinstall the plaque. Neither post quoted a Denny's statement or explained why the plaque was taken down in the first place.
The photo in Polymarket's first post shows Huang in his usual black leather jacket holding the plaque, which reads "The booth that launched a $1 trillion company," in front of a Denny's sign and a red booth. That post passed one million views by scan time.
The episode came a day after Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO, while employees and investors were pushing the board to consider bringing him back, as covered in other stories in this deck.
What to expect next
Watch for a statement from Denny's on why the plaque came down and whether it is back on the wall, which no post scanned confirmed. The story is a small sideshow to the bigger questions at Nvidia, including its CEO search and the investigations tied to Megaspeed. Treat both the removal and the reinstallation as reported by Polymarket and Andrew Curran until Denny's confirms them.