The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Jensen Huang earns The Strategist by committing to technological trajectories years before consensus forms. As NVIDIA's co-founder and CEO, he steered the company from graphics hardware into parallel computing and then AI acceleration, each pivot arriving ahead of market demand.
“I'm doing all the things necessary to. See? I can go to sleep because I checked it off. I said, okay. I can go to sleep. I go. Well, let's see. Let's reason about this. What's important for us? Because, okay, let's reason about this.”
“You have free tokens, you have premium tokens, and you have several tokens in the middle. And so intelligence, as it turns out, is a scalable product.”
“It's completely obvious to everybody that we absolutely should. On the day that I said, hey guys, let's go all in on deep learning. And let me tell you why. I've already been laying down the bricks to different organizations inside the company. Every organization, many of the people might have heard everything.”
“But that's impossible now because unveiling somebody too so dense. And so that's an example, and I would have to go into, you know, I fly into the supply chain, go meet my partners, and hey, guess what? So here's what I'm going to do with this is the way we used to build our DGXs. We're going to build them this way.”
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