3dfx's own merger filing said it would likely lose customers who competed with STB, yet the board signed anyway.
How the Voodoo card's maker went from GLQuake to selling its name and its patents to Nvidia.

Chapters
0:00 The press release
2:22 No motherboard
5:31 The click
11:16 Our own destiny
16:07 Boards
20:40 The name on the bridge
23:52 In writing

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3Dfx Interactive, Inc., prospectus for 3,000,000 shares, Rule 424(b)(1), filed June 25, 1997 (primary: filing). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...
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3Dfx Interactive, press release "3Dfx Interactive Receives Over $11.6 Million in Second Round of Funding", March 4, 1996, archived (primary: archive item). https://web.archive.org/web/199610230...
3Dfx Interactive, press release "3Dfx Interactive Receives Another $11.6 Million in Its Third Round of Financing", December 9, 1996, archived (primary: archive item). https://web.archive.org/web/199702130...

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