Jen-Hsun Huang: Stanford student and Entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA

Every successful thing needs to be torn down and rebuilt. In more of an intimate conversation than a lecture, Huang relates his experience as an engineer, entrepreneur, and innovator. Find out how he meets the ever-constant challenge of re-invention as co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
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[@somnathrajanga4290]

"Innovation needs a lot of experimentation, experimentation needs exploration, explorations will result in failures. If you do not have tolerance for failures, you wont succeed" - Jen-Hsun Huang

[@nalinsav]

great quote; thanks a ton for this kind comment with this awesome quote!

[@tommypearson9260]

He became the Villian when he purchased his first leather jacket........ 💯

[@zabrak999]

Dweeb detected.

[@nalinsav]

So superbly said @tommypearson9260 as a vegan and as an animal lover I agree 100 percent with you on that

[@enia1953]

Why do you say that? I am puzzled.

[@zhangyuhang9444]

villain?

[@gamingsportz3390]

Arn't we all villains when using phones made by child labour. All the little hands extracting cobalt in mines and putting small components together.

[@123cooldude500]

Jen-Hsun at 40:02 saw the world of 2024 in 2011. This is why his company has a 2 trillion dollar evaluation today. Incredible.

[@MatthewMS.]

And he’s cool 😎 too

[@MrDanbloom]

Jensen Huang is one amazing dude. Born in Taiwan to a wonderful mom and an engineer father, his parents immigrated to USA when he was nine. At OSU in Corvallis, his lab partner was Lori who he fell in love with and married. Two adult children now Spencer and Madison. A continuing passion and love for Taiwan, a personality that was nurtured by his parents and his children. He will indeed live to be 80. I'm 74 and based in Taiwan since 1991. This video should be watched by everyone. Jensen is the real McCoy. A true Huang!

[@cywang8111]

He didnt donate as much as donation to Standford

[@user-vp6fh8gx7z]

Do Taiwanese want to war with China?

[@mountaindew2656]

"GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY!!!" - Maryanne Owens somewhere from Texas

[@user-vi6xh4yj4k]

❤❤❤

[@ChaosKingable]

Out of curiosity - can you please elaborate what you mean by "true Huang" ?

[@yuxia5989]

this is better than 90% of business class

[@Mimi-fo7kp]

more like 99.99%

[@alexsandromanotech2316]

Do you already had a business class?

[@MrArunraja08]

I m watching this video and he is still the ceo and nvidia is 1trillon $ company. Wat a legend!!

[@lopadova_]

2.19t

[@spiderduckpig]

2 trillion now, 4th largest in the world

[@siansroadtonirvana]

Jen-Hsun was so great! So many years later, and I am glad that I got to listen to this.

[@happyisblue]

I always like his talks. Wish I can speak like him.

[@hugo9618]

He looks like a nice guy. I wish him and his little n-video company all the best.

[@axiom1650]

in-video is still around to this day surprisingly! I think they still make new products even.

[@ShaolinChan5988]

He is very blessed

[@Hunter-ii9wt]

@@axiom1650 it’s in the top 10 most valuable companies in the world ! NVIDIA

[@Itsme-hh4pl]

@@axiom1650in fact InnVidia, is even helping in propelling the whole I.A. Industry!

[@natusaddeficiendum]

​@@Hunter-ii9wtNo way!

[@mcfang329]

What a perspective and visionary at a time. He knows what he is doing way back then and look at him today. He has been preparing this path since from the beginning.

[@Infi1337]

To be fair he should prepare to drop prices a little bit.

[@mio2540]

@@Infi1337 BUT MY DLSS

[@PresidenteMc]

@@Infi1337😂 as he said, sometimes you don't have to follow the wishes of the customer but go ahead with your long-term vision

[@retrofitter]

@@PresidenteMc Once you try cyberpunk pathtraced at 4k, you'll understand the future of games will be fully path traced

[@SCTproductionsJ5]

Start: 3:56 Real start after tech problems solved: 6:00

[@hodlcro4dlife661]

He is so chill and down to earth but yet flying sky high

[@kishansonkar8535]

B by b

[@mirellarodriguezhernandez5556]

@@kishansonkar8535 jl88a3w80

[@LittleWhole]

@@mirellarodriguezhernandez5556 Gub57+'gbnkψψψψþþþþこ

[@satioOeinas]

The best kind

[@SageOfDuality]

Amazing guy

[@IndieAuthorX]

Man, insanely worthwhile talk for me to listen to. The age of the talk is pertinent as now we have the fruit of all those labors coming to fruition and we know that his vision was successful.

[@Kriegsgeier]

Hammer Video! Höchst interessant! Danke Jensen für deine große Worte!

[@richttycoon]

This was before he can afford a leather jacket. His words are educational. Sending this link to my son.

[@kintin6478]

most intelligent CEO I had even seen, thank you so much for this presentation!

[@dammitbobby283]

This is a truly amazing lecture.

[@Loppy2345]

This guy is a genius.

[@andeygaming2063]

Iii I iiii iiiii I I I I ii I ii I no I in i I I iiii n i

[@masternobody1896]

rtx 4090 ti enter the chat

[@Shah-G]

What about now?

[@rameshshah8827]

I believe Jensen could be a true Peace maker for USA China relations. I hope he lives to 100 and may God bless him for his passion and Vision to make the world a better place for all world countries.

[@kongchan437]

Impossibke even for smart guy like him. It is the very human nature of greed, to control power, to control everybody, of the chinese communist party, that is much greater than all jenson's mental and physical resource that he has today at year 2024. As long as there are people like the ccp and putin, the world will not see peace. Only God's power can bring peace.

[@VenkataRamaRajuLolabhattu]

Like it, very practical. Many insights, many takeaways

[@pekwind]

the most valuable semiconductor company in the world. this guys is underrated.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

uh depends on how you define valuable.. highest most bloated stock price? sure but not most valuable in terms of revenue, profit, capital or anything else really.. and market cap not close to tsmc anyways

[@dylankerler3409]

TSMC is worth more

[@armosuperman2k5]

Most valuable fabless for sure. Fastest growing market cap too. Up 3x from start of 2020, nearly $.5T

[@ripalnaik6331]

AMD will overtake it.

[@Nerdywr]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j nvidia is already heads and shoulders above other fabless semicon competitors, in terms of progress in the most polarizing upcoming tech paradigms such as AI, machine learning, autonomous chips, and virtual reality. Almost the entire existing ML libraries run on the CUDA interface. I have no doubt NVDA will be the next TSLA-like stock craze in the coming 5 years and decade, and easily become a trillion dollar cap company, which it already is on track

[@HahaHa-kn3db]

He is a hero from Taiwan

[@Throwingness]

This talk was before the AI revolution so, here are some fun facts. Jensen sunk loads of money into creating the architecture for what became AI computing in 2007. Wall Street analysts valued this part of Nvidia's business at $0 up until 2019. What a visionary!

[@warpigs9069]

This entire video was rendered in OMNIVERSE!!!!!

[@pphealthy8866]

the part that talk about culture of nvidia is very valuable, thanks

[@ricr.4669]

So I just found out he's a stud handsome guy with a beautiful commanding voice. Dang!

[@ivospironello6451]

This is really awesome. He started almost from a remote idea. Nowadays not only games which resulted in the 1# most profitable entertainment sector but also AI model relies in nvidia GPUs to be trained.

[@CristobalRuiz]

I wish I was as articulate and clear as this fella. Hats down.

[@alexcastro5081]

what in saying man why couldn’t God give me a brain like his

[@speakingtruths4215]

They will "move to memorial auditorium when Steve Ballmer is here." I found that funny. If anyone should be in the auditorium and have tickets sold for his lecture, it should be this man. Not all CEO's are created equal.

[@tomgirl366]

He is so underrated. People only talks about Elon Musk, Steve jobs, Jeff Bezos.

[@rayrayravioli4250]

Underrated in comparison to the top 2 billionaires, what kind of comparison is that... Those 2 individually have net worths over 10x Jensen Huang's, so from the get go they're more "relevant", and they also run/are associated with more "relevant" brands, I put this in quotes because this in no way means good, and such applies for Steve Jobs who just happened to be the face of the world's largest tech manufacturer ever, so his relevance is set in concrete. Jensen Huang on the other hand? Risen from the niche gaming hardware market and in its true wake over the COVID pandemic, essentially abused his position as the leading GPU manufacturer, and is still making the same mistakes today releasing subpar GPUs with absolutely no innovation whatsoever, any innovation is held hostage behind scummy business tactics that the 3 people you mentioned "override" due to the relevancy of their respective brands and products. You'll find many passionate people in the tech industry, moreso than the majority of other industries, but big tech names will fall into obscurity and will be set aside very quickly RIGHTFULLY for making stupid moves, no matter the amount of passion they once had. All in all, Jensen Huang is a horrible person who sold his soul to big tech and seemingly has not a clue how to retain customers, for I am one of those people who have pledged to avoid purchasing any more GPUs, the 3070 ti will be my last Nvidia upgrade, and if I can help it the last card I get from them unless they can miraculously fix their act, will take a lot more than 5% generational Fps-per-cost unit uplift (which is to be questioned when they released the 4060 Ti, which many say is posed to be even worse value than the 3070...)

[@MrFujinko]

@@rayrayravioli4250 do the capitalists pay you to write this or you lick boots for free these days? next time your water mains comes apart do yourself a favor and phone the bank manager, then you will find out how much money people care about you

[@ghoziakbar6410]

​@@rayrayravioli4250 It's insane how one year ago nobody would imagine that nvidia can have the most valuable stock in the market.

[@mba2ceo]

The greatest success is when money has NO value. A giant among ants. Great presentation.

[@lakshnaramesh9733]

Have u bought Nvidia shares when u comment this? I think u commented in 2016

[@ahmedanwer6899]

hes such a nice fella hes like the chill history teacher at ur school

[@ralffig3297]

Probably the best management video out there. As an entrepreneur, I almost physically relate to all things this guy says.

[@JousefM]

That's probably one of the best talks I ever heard! Really cool guy.

[@oceaneuropa1117]

Lesson learned: invent your own programming language from the unique perspective of your visionary instinct and apply it to the world.

[@kevinhuang6869]

7丶,。

[@LittleWhole]

@@kevinhuang6869 æþ❢

[@sarasimpson9885]

He bought 20% of nvidia shares for $200, which is valued at 400 billion 😮

[@hasanaijaz100]

What a talk! Holds true to his every word till today, just about 15 years on!!

[@megauploader]

Pure Gold...

[@Kababalax]

He said " The market doesn't set your price, the competition does" In other words, greed will have no bounds unless competion takes some of their feed away.

[@ShaolinChan5988]

What a great intelligence and he's also blessed with a great deal of wisdom, but he might not aware of it That needs a natural maturity and in order to achieve much greater success in that aspect which is the most important in one's life. It can NOT be told or taught. If it seeded .. That's the 禅 is all about... The highest stage in mankind can achieve is where would you want to be after all

[@zeweichu550]

Thanks for sharing

[@alejandrolopez1812]

so glad im listen to this. learn so much

[@yakoudbz]

I would love to talk to that guy, share ideas, perspective... It's the first one hour talk I've ever really listened on the internet.

[@jonquindiagan7625]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@DarkflameLee]

A great talk

[@Endeavour30]

Where is the leather jacket?

[@heeseok7792]

oh i was there in the class room and He just threw it to me before he jumped up to the podium. I remember it smelt like gpu

[@btwiamgay]

@@heeseok7792 lol

[@HeroDai2448]

It wasn’t invented yet

[@oliveiraluis3540]

Couldnt render it properly with raster yet

[@notlekrut]

He wasn’t a money grubbing executive until he got the jacket

[@GeForece6200]

This's just way too good! I

[@masternobody1896]

This is how he control the mass

[@masternobody1896]

This change my perspective and what does it cost knowledge

[@masternobody1896]

40:50 he said ray tracing ok he is 10 years ahead

[@Justjefe]

Better than any business book

[@hemangchauhan2864]

This talks hits harder when working in you're working in startup. You see those exact things happening.

[@ReflectionOcean]

Having a unique perspective and vision is crucial, even if others don't see the opportunity yet. Be willing to ignore conventional wisdom. Competition is intense. What separates winners is having a deep understanding of what makes your business model work. Reinvention through innovation is necessary but risky. Be ready to cannibalize your own products and business model. Culture matters. Foster innovation by encouraging smart risk-taking and quickly pivoting when things don't work. Focus intensely on your core business. Learn to say no to distractions, even seemingly promising ones. Find mentors everywhere. Be open to learning from anyone. Succession planning should focus on developing leaders, not pre-picking replacements. Start a company for passion and purpose, not money. Money alone is the wrong motivation.

[@duyuzhang]

really great talk

[@12121921]

He shows passionate and energy.

[@timytimotius4679]

He was, and always is, a great presenter.

[@namelessdata4608]

And now a great scammer. He did the opposite of what he promised to gamers. We got slapped in the face with high prices beyond inflation and misleading performance numbers. Nvidia is disgusting for their anti consumer practices and price hike ripoff and Jensen went from an honorable CEO to now no better than a scammer.

[@dizparkash]

@@namelessdata4608when you’re right, you’re right.

[@loctrang]

The man is a genius and is one of the Silicon Valley’s royalties for sure! We would be lucky if we can be half as good as he is 👏👏👏

[@Interestingworld4567]

I actually enjoy the hole video🤗

[@barbarosozturk]

27:57 The fella is so smart that he answers the question before hearing it fully.

[@mks3019]

Really inspiring....some lessions are really important in life and he truly spoke from his experiences.!

[@Gaetano.94]

Really inspiring. He would be proud to see the $1703 CAD before tax bill of my RTX 4080

[@1tsbag134]

​@@Gaetano.94 but he probably seened like a good person 10 years ago...

[@codaassasin]

Wow, thats amazing, nice one jen-Hsun

[@betanapallisandeepra]

Wonderful sharing ❤😊

[@flowzero]

Very brilliant !!

[@debabrata98]

Great ceo 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@taijistar9052]

He has energy and conviction. And communication skills!

[@MandoMTL]

Like every sociopath conman.

[@aznmayo]

@@MandoMTL bruh what

[@kentpoon7242]

“When you are not constantly reinventing yourself.....“， this is exactly what you see on Apple now. Jensen is such a visionary!

[@123cooldude500]

I liked your comment, but I don't agree with you: Apple absolutely does try to reinvent themselves. They don't like to put out products that aren't up to the 'Apple" standard of technology however. Modern Apple wouldn't have never created something like NVidia FX line in 2003 and released it. So from the outside, it looks like they are just refining their successful products and not innovating but, on the inside they just threw out the whole idea of an Apple car. Even if Tesla did it first, Apple still absolutely tried to reinvent themselves with the car idea.

[@ronnieku972]

Wish i had found this video at that time and bought the stocks.😢

[@chriall]

@8:25 How times have changed... He lost his way, lost his vision. And in the end he became the very thing that he opposed.

[@oliveiraluis3540]

You are in charge of youre own company, that means you hire who you wanna hire. Thats great and its the most significant thing I get from this guy. Great talk.

[@TrollMeister_]

I bought my first card in 2000. It was based on GeForce2 GTS and was the first time I heard the name nVidia. And boy what a difference it made to playing Quake 2.

[@kirkchen8113]

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

[@Demopans5990]

Same can be said of most of the current tech CEOs. Steve Wozniak is currently chilling last I've heard

[@HarryClipz]

The “leather jacket” is the force he draws from

[@satioOeinas]

Why is he a villain now?

[@user-gc5kv3cd7j]

Liked a lot

[@ReflectionOcean]

The video highlights the insights and experiences shared by Jensen Wang, co-founder of NVIDIA, in building a successful company. Wang emphasizes the significance of having a unique perspective and vision in entrepreneurship, as well as the importance of a culture that encourages risk-taking and innovation. He also discusses the role of focus and leadership in achieving success. Wang mentions the potential of GPU computing and the future of NVIDIA. The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of learning from others and remaining open to new ideas. Overall, the video emphasizes the importance of passion, belief, and purpose in starting a company, rather than being solely driven by money.

[@myelinsheathxd]

Love it!

[@Interestingworld4567]

Good Lecture 🤗

[@marekskokan]

Wondering, who from '2020+ tech heroes' was there and listening that day.

[@VipulVaibhaw]

I love it!

[@stevenmorales2501]

To correct the last question asked by the Latin American student: “my friends have great ideas but it is hard for them to receive any funding for their ideas. What would you recommend to them?” It wasn’t that “my friends have too much money and don’t feel like doing it”.

[@hasankarami1991]

Jensen Huang is the best❤

[@user-rb9qm5wr2l]

Apparently, back then Jensen hasn't yet acquired the taste for leather jacket.

[@chengchinpin644]

Kłiooooii

[@ShaolinChan5988]

It might be a summer time 😆👍

[@warpigs9069]

Leather snakeskin jacket :)

[@Martinit0]

Jen-Hsun Huwang: 58:10 "Startup: an enterprise that is nearly out of business all the time."

[@JordanPavlov]

good lecture

[@andrewlee7307]

Inspiring

[@viktoro.ledenyov5829]

Super!!!😊😊😊

[@darshan9raj]

inspire me,thnk x uuu

[@linkchen8245]

"When you are not constantly reinventing yourself in the hi-tech, you are slowly dying at the rate of Moore's law"

[@namelessdata4608]

Lol, nice burn

[@xnx304]

admire him despite I am AMD fan

[@fegari]

brilliant guy

[@rubenwieman7959]

30 years overnight success

[@skylk559]

42:00 one year later, Alex Krizhevsky, in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, would release AlexaNet which was built on top of Nividia CUDA as the compute accelerator, and start the deep learning.

[@inlander311]

amazing content

[@ziggystardust6566]

56:26 crazy to see how true his prediction was

[@user-ss1cg2bs9g]

When we were young and we were talking beautiful nonsense !

[@BestMods168]

This guy sounds pretty smart. He should start a business.

[@god-son-love]

lol

[@AriKath]

So fun!

[@iamnestle]

why would you thumb down this video. this is free advice.

[@jaspreetkaur2496]

Insightful Conversation!

[@hodlcro4dlife661]

Mans vision is now across the whole world trying to replicate his work cloud data and gpu processing and rendering is everywhere especially in times like this where everyone is working from home cloud data companys stocks are SkyRocketing🚀

[@juliez8860]

6:57 “You can (ad)dress in a particular way”- you made it

[@ashfaquehossain8592]

What year it was recorded?

[@MrMiniPancakes]

Wish I bought stock here

[@jthedood1605]

From "reinvented the technology to make it inexpensive" to "you buy more, you save more"

[@bored78612]

He was talking to his corporate customers for his serves clowns like GN and the other low IQ games just took his words out of context.

[@amol5463777]

Electrical/Software engineers and Mathematicians have highest organised brains among humans.