Jensen Huang

Quotes are word for word from the source.

• Gratitude and Support

  “You benefit from the kindness of all the people that support you.”

  Our notePersonal success relies heavily on the goodwill and support of others.

• Organizational Architecture

  “Your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product.”

  Our noteAn organization must be architected as the machinery that builds its products.

• Generative AI in Biology

  “We can understand proteins and the functions that are associated with them, and we can generate new proteins with new properties and functions.”

  Our noteGenerative AI enables understanding biological structures and designing novel proteins.

• Cloud and Video AI

  “All of that generative AI work is done in the cloud and so video has generative AI.”

  Our noteCloud-based generative AI is transforming video processing and creation.

• 3D Graphics and AI

  “We know that there's imaging and 3D graphics for generative AI, video for generative AI.”

  Our noteGenerative AI encompasses 3D graphics, imaging, and video media.

• High-Speed Computing Fabric

  “The computing fabric that compute connects processors needs to be quite high speed.”

  Our noteHigh-speed interconnect fabrics are essential for linking fast processors.

• Scale and Interconnects

  “The faster the processors, the greater need for high speed computing fabrics and so it's a matter of scale and the effectiveness of the scale.”

  Our noteFaster processors demand superior interconnects to achieve effective system scale.

• Linearity of Scaling

  “It's just a matter of how far can you scale and what is the effectiveness of the scaling, the linearity of the scaling.”

  Our noteComputing infrastructure depends on the limits and linearity of scaling.

• Direct Industry Coverage

  “The automotive industry, we have direct coverage on just about every single car company.”

  Our noteMaintaining direct coverage across nearly every enterprise in key verticals secures market leadership.

• Scaling and Computing

  “The problem that you're trying to solve is you would like to go faster than the number of computers that you add.”

  Our noteThe core challenge is achieving exponential performance gains that outpace mere physical expansion.

• Leadership and Management

  “My direct staff is 60 people. You know, I don't have one-on-ones with 'em because it's impossible.”

  Our noteManaging a large number of direct reports requires abandoning traditional one-on-one meetings for more efficient communication.

• Courage and Ambition

  “almost everything my first thought is, "How hard can it be?"”

  Our noteA bold refusal to overthink the difficulty of a task is the starting point for ambitious endeavors.

• Engineering Productivity

  “I wanted my software engineers to solve problems. I didn't care how many lines of code they wrote, you know?”

  Our noteThe true value of an engineer lies in their ability to solve problems rather than the sheer volume of their output.

• Trust and Human Nature

  “I start with always that people want to do good. People want to help others. And vastly, I am proven right.”

  Our noteStarting with the assumption that people inherently want to do good builds a strong foundation of trust.

• The CUDA moat

  “Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem is ultimately its great treasure.”

  Our noteJensen highlights the value of the software ecosystem they have built.

• Performance and revenue

  “When you increase it by a factor of two, that doubles the revenues. That directly translates to revenues.”

  Our noteJensen explains how optimizing software for customers increases their bottom line.

• Earning market position

  “We have to continuously earn the position that we're in. There are always big claims. Look at the number of ASICs that have been canceled.”

  Our noteJensen discusses the need to constantly prove Nvidia's value against competitors and custom chips.

• Trust based partnership

  “Nvidia and TSMC don't have a legal contract. There's always some rough justice. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes I got a better deal, sometimes I got a worse deal.”

  Our noteJensen describes the long-term, informal relationship between Nvidia and TSMC.

• Software and architecture

  “architecture matters. Computer science matters. Semiconductor physics matters as well, but computer science matters.”

  Our noteJensen emphasizes that software and system design are the real drivers of modern computing power.

• Guiding partner investment

  “I'm also describing where are we going to go next so that they could use all of this information and all of the dynamics that are here to inform how they want to invest.”

  Our noteJensen explains why he shares his roadmap with suppliers and partners.

• Reasoning with partners

  “I draw pictures and I reason about it in first principles. And by the time I'm done with them, they know what to do.”

  Our noteJensen explains how he convinces partners to make multi-billion dollar capital investments.