The success of Nvidia in recent years could have been much different if co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang took a job he was offered in 2013.

Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC, requested Jensen Huang of Nvidia to consider taking over as CEO of the Taiwanese chip giant more than ten years ago, but Chang was rejected in ten minutes, according to a new volume of autobiography.

Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) became the world’s most valuable company earlier this year on the back of surging demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang founded the multi-billion dollar chip company more than 30 years ago and recently talked about what it would take to pit expectations against reality and do it all over again.

TSMC founder Morris Chang and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have long-admired each other publicly — but Huang decided to keep his focus on his own company.

TSMC's founder Morris Chang asked Nvidia's Jensen Huang to consider becoming the chief executive of the Taiwanese chip giant more than a decade ago, but was turned down in just 10 minutes, Chang says in a new volume of autobiography.