On the long game of developing CUDA:
“I like hard things because it takes a long time to do. If it takes a long time to do, it takes a really resilient person to do it.”
You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating:
- someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold
- someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster
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.