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Every company has a CEO. Every department has its vice presidents. Every realm has its powers and principalities. But only one company has a potentate. The tale of how NVIDIA’s Jonathon Evans got his crown, and had his modest cubicle transformed into a royal court begins — as stories like this often do at the company — with Saran Wrap. Jonathon — who leads the team that designs the host interface and context scheduling unit for our GPUs — decided to play a prank on one of his colleagues, Alan Kaatz, while he was away. So, he wrapped Alan’s computer, keyboard and many of the objects in his cube in cellophane. Alan, a quick-witted engineer with a keen sense of the absurd, decided to hit back. Hard. “I wanted to do something so big that it would be impossible to retaliate,” Alan says. So Alan and a small group of other GPU designers — Eric Tyson, Steve Mueller and Rafal Zboinski — huddled around a whiteboard to sketch out what revenge might look like.