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.
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. 
The most shocking thing from talking with Jensen: if he could do it all over again, he would not start a company. The toll it takes is too large.
Brutal honesty with zero hesitation.
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was new territory for Nvidia. Since his very first meeting with Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky at the Denny’s in East San Jose, Jensen had always focused on the importance of clearly defining market opportunities and developing new
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