Solved. Turns out, I have a second graphics card. It was the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Disabling it allowed Blender to turn on. No idea why...

In T88473#1169633, @Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123) wrote:

Issue is not reproducible for me also. May be driver specific this crash is??

(refer: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/troubleshooting/gpu/index.html#windows if you did not update graphics driver yet, otherwise ignore the link)

In T88473#1165089, @Evan Wilson (EAW) wrote:

Please open Blender's installation directory and double click on the blender_debug_gpu.cmd. This will start Blender in debug mode and create log files. Try to make Blender crash again. Once it crashes the Windows Explorer should open and show you up to two files, a debug log and the system information. Add them to your bug report by clicking on the upload button as shown in the screenshot below or via drag and drop. Please also upload the crash log located in C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Temp\[project name].crash.txt (or simply type %TEMP% into the path bar of the Windows Explorer).

In T88473#1164330, @Himanshi Kalra (calra) wrote:

Check out the minimum requirements, and update the drivers.

https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/