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EP. 158 · 14.01.2025 · 35:00

THE MINDSET THAT BUILT NVIDIA

with Jensen Huang

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EPISODE BRIEF — EP. 158 · THE MINDSET THAT BUILT NVIDIA
Guest: Jensen Huang · Published: 14.01.2025 · Duration: 35:00

【OVERVIEW】
Jensen Huang on the founder's mindset: tolerating pain as a design requirement, why he refuses to plan more than a direction ahead, and the specific decisions that kept NVIDIA alive long enough for the AI wave to arrive.

【KEY TAKEAWAYS】
1. Why he wishes founders more pain
2. Betting the company, repeatedly
3. Building for a market that does not exist yet
4. What he would tell a founder starting today

【CHAPTERS】
00:00 — Why he wishes founders more pain
10:00 — Betting the company, repeatedly
22:00 — Building for a market that does not exist yet
30:00 — What he would tell a founder starting today

【TOPICS】Founders · Startups · Resilience · NVIDIA · Strategy

【WATCH】https://thedaopod.com/episodes/ep-158-jensen-huang-the-mindset-that-built-nvidia

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Jensen Huang on the founder's mindset: tolerating pain as a design requirement, why he refuses to plan more than a direction ahead, and the specific decisions that kept NVIDIA alive long enough for the AI wave to arrive.

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EP. 158 · THE MINDSET THAT BUILT NVIDIA

Jensen Huang on the founder's mindset: tolerating pain as a design requirement, why he refuses to plan more than a direction ahead, and the specific decisions that kept NVIDIA alive long enough for the AI wave to arrive.

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JENSEN HUANG

Founder & CEO, NVIDIA

Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, who has led the company through three decades of near-misses, reinventions and a final transformation into the core supplier of AI compute.

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