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Jensen Huang

3 principles from NVIDIA's CEO interview: on building conviction, learning from suffering, and leading through the AI revolution.

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With Jensen Huang

"I hope that you have the gift of having suffered a little bit. Because it makes you resilient. And I think resilience is a superpower."
Jensen Huang, on the episode

In 2023, Ben and David finally sat down with Jensen Huang himself, after seven hours of covering NVIDIA across three episodes. Jensen is one of the most unusual CEOs in history: a Denny's waiter who built the most valuable semiconductor company on earth, held onto his vision through multiple near-death experiences, and at age 60 became the most important person in tech. This conversation reveals the mental models behind the man.

Tactic 02

Jensen Huang, Acquired

The CEO as Chief Reasoning Officer

The play

Reason through decisions together so everyone hears the conclusion at the same time.

Jensen Huang says

At the moment they decided together and reasoned through something, everybody heard the decision at exactly the same time, so nobody has more power than anybody else. The new college grad learned at exactly the same time as the executive staff. You earn the right to have your job based on your ability to reason through things and help other people succeed, not because you have some privileged information.

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When making a decision, include people from different levels in the room so everyone hears the reasoning at the same time.

Tactic 03

The Flat Organization as Information Architecture

Jensen Huang says

NVIDIA is not built like a military, not built like the Armed Forces with generals and colonels. It is wired…

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