key takeaways
- Jensen Huang has been the CEO of Nvidia since the company’s inception in 1993.
- In a new conversation, Huang says he approaches problems with a unique perspective.
- He learned the mentality from his mother, who taught him English from a dictionary in his childhood.
Jensen Huang approaches every new problem with the mentality how hard can it be? – an attitude he learned from his mother.
in a conversation in cambridge union Earlier this month, the Nvidia CEO described how his mother used “a piece of paper and a dictionary” to teach him English, even though she didn’t speak the language herself.
Huang, who was born in Taiwan, was sent to the United States for better educational opportunities when he was nine years old business insiderHis mother, who spoke Taiwanese Hokkien, began teaching him English before he left to prepare him for the transition,
“My mom taught me English, and she doesn’t speak English,” Huang said in the conversation, adding, “In many ways, it defines Nvidia, in a way, defines me. I look at almost everything from this perspective, how hard can it be?,
huang co-founding In 1993 Nvidia immediately stepped into the role of CEO, a title he has now held for 32 years. Under his leadership, Nvidia grew the most valuable The company in the world, crossed the market value of $5 trillion last month. Nvidia’s market capitalization is now $4.58 trillionFar more than its competitors including AMD, Intel, Micron and Qualcomm.
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Huang said he had never been a CEO or manager before at Nvidia. He approached new endeavors with the same mindset: break everything down to first principles and learn along the way. After all, how hard can it be?
The most important thing for him was to stay in the game long enough to learn the game. “I was able to do what I do today because I didn’t get bored and I didn’t get fired,” Huang said. “I think that was the magic of it. It’s 100%.”
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Huang’s mother also told him when he was young that he was “special” and encouraged him to do well on tests. Huang says this is where he learned to have high expectations.
“If people tell you that you are better, greater, more capable than them, you can live up to that expectation,” Huang said. “It reminds us to do the same with our companies, and it reminds us to do the same with each other.”
Huang has created a unique management culture at Nvidia. he has 60 direct reportsPrefer to keep the organization as flat as possible, but Does not hold one-on-one meetingsHe personally reviews the compensation of all 42,000 Nvidia employees each earnings cycle,
huang was ninth richest person in the world at the time of writing, with a net worth of $162 billion.
key takeaways
- Jensen Huang has been the CEO of Nvidia since the company’s inception in 1993.
- In a new conversation, Huang says he approaches problems with a unique perspective.
- He learned the mentality from his mother, who taught him English from a dictionary in his childhood.
Jensen Huang approaches every new problem with the mentality how hard can it be? – an attitude he learned from his mother.
in a conversation in cambridge union Earlier this month, the Nvidia CEO described how his mother used “a piece of paper and a dictionary” to teach him English, even though she didn’t speak the language herself.
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