Buried in 10 years of Jensen Huang's Stanford talks are the secrets to building the most valuable tech company in the world.
I dug through hours of talks and mapped out how the 30 year veteran CEO of NVIDIA thinks about inventing the future.
Tweets From Jason Shen · @JasonShentwitter.comBuried in 10 years of Jensen Huang's Stanford talks are the secrets to building the most valuable tech company in the world. I dug through hours of talks and mapped out how the 30 year veteran CEO of NVIDIA thinks about inventing the future. 
In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan. After Jensen’s pitch, Wilf said, “I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I’ve ever heard.” Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said, “Don, I’m going to send a kid over to you. He’s one of the best employees I
... See moreJensen: Yeah. The thing to keep in mind is, at all times what is the market opportunity that you’re engaging in? That informs your size. I was told a long time ago that Nvidia can never be larger than a billion dollars. Obviously, it’s an underestimation, under imagination of the size of the opportunity. It is the case that no chip company can ever... See more
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The great story behind it is that when Mike was taking over for Don Valentine with Doug, he was sitting and looking at Sequoia’s returns. He was looking at fund three or four, I think it was four maybe that had Cisco in it. He was like, how are we ever going to top that? Don’s going to have us beat. We’re never going to beat that.
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