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  1. “Thank you, Lex. I had a great time. And also, if I could just say one more thing, and thank you. For all the interviews that you do, the depth, the respect that you go through with and the research that you do to reveal for all of us the amazing people that you've interviewed over the years, I've enjoyed them immensely. And as an innovator to have created this long form, unbelievable. And yet, you know, it's just captivating. So anyways, thank you for everything you do.”

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  2. “All of my consciousness has already been so much of my life has been uploaded in the internet. Take all my inbox, take everything I've done, everything I've said. You know, it's been becoming my AI. And when the time comes, we'll just send that at the speed light, catch up with my robot.”

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  3. “How can you not be romantic about that? The fact that it's a reasonable thing to expect the end of disease. It's a reasonable thing to expect. It's a reasonable thing to expect that pollution will be drastically reduced. It's a reasonable thing to expect that traveling at the speed of light. Actually, in our future. And then not for a long distances, but short distances. People ask me how, well, first of all, very soon I'm going to put a humanoid on a spaceship. And it's going to be my humanoid. And we're going to send it out as soon as possible. And it's going to keep improving and enhancing along the flight. And then when it's time,”

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  4. “Things that we want to build, there's so many good things that we want to do that are now within our reach and within the reach of my lifetime. You just can't possibly not be romantic about that. You know what I'm saying”

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  5. “I've always had great confidence in the In the kindness, the generosity. The compassion, the human capacity. I've always been extremely confident of that. Sometimes More so than I should. And I get taken advantage of, but it doesn't ever cause me not to. I start with always that people want to do good. People want to help others. And vastly, I am proven right. Constantly proven right And often exceeds my expectations. And so I have complete confidence in the human capacity. I think the thing that give me incredible hope is what I see as I extrapolate, as what I see now is possible, and as I extrapolate based on the things that we're doing, what will very likely happen. And that there's so many things that we want to solve. There's so many problems we want to solve. There's so many.”

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  6. “Every moment I spend inside a company, outside a company, is about passing on knowledge to people as fast as I can. Nothing I learn ever sits on my desk longer than, you know, a fraction of a second. I'm passing that information that know, oh my gosh, this is cool. Before I even finish learning all of it myself, I've already pointed it to somebody else. Get on this. This is so cool. You're going to want to want to learn this. And so I'm constantly passing knowledge, empowering people, elevating the capability of everybody around me so that The outcome that I seek. I hope for is that I die on the job, and hopefully I die on a job instantaneously. And there's no long periods of suffering, you know?”

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  7. “Succession planning. If you worry all that anxiety of succession planning, then what should you do about it? Then you break it all the way back down. The most important thing you should do today, if you care about the future of your company post you, is to pass on knowledge, information, insight, skills, experience as often and continuously as you can, which is the reason why continuously reason about everything in front of my team Every single meeting is about a reasoning meeting.”

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  8. “I really don't want to die. I have a great life, a great family. I've really important work. This is not a once in a Once in a lifetime experience suggests that it has been experienced by many people, just not one person. This is a once-in-a-humanity experience, what I'm going through. NVIDIA is one of the most consequential technology companies in history. We're doing very important work. I take it very seriously. And so some of the things that, of course, are practical things. Like, how do we think about succession planning? And I'm famous in saying that I don't believe in succession planning. And the reason for that isn't because I'm immortal. The reason for that is because if you're worried about”

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  9. “The intelligence curve, then everybody around me doesn't change the fact I'm the most successful. And I think that kind of is, I'm trying to hopefully inspire everybody else that don't let this democratization of intelligence, this commoditization of intelligence. Cause you anxiety. You should be inspired by that.”

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  10. “Character, humanity, all of those things Compassion, generosity, all of the things that you say just now I believe those are superhuman powers, and that now intelligence is going to be commoditized because we've spoken about it the most important thing is your education. Now, even when they said the most important things your education, when you went to school, there's more than just knowledge that you gained. And so, but unfortunately, our society had put everything into one single word. And life is more than one word, and I'm just telling you my life would suggest that being lower is”

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  11. “A much, much bigger word. And our life experience, our tolerance for pain, our determination, those are different words in intelligence. And so the thing that I want to help the audience understand, if I could give them one thing, is intelligence is a word that we've elevated to very high form over time.”

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  12. “And yet, I have a role in that circle. It's actually kind of interesting. They're more educated than I am. They went to better schools than I did. They're deeper than the fields at their end, all of'em. I have sixty of'em. They're all superhuman to me. And somehow I'm sitting in the middle, orchestrating all sixty of them. And so you got to ask yourself, What is it about a dishwasher that allows that dishwasher to sit in the middle of superhumans? Does that make sense? And so But that's my point. My point is intelligence is a functional thing. Humanity is not specified functionally.”

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  13. “And just really important to break down what is intelligence. The word we use all the time, it's not a mysterious word. Intelligence has a meaning. And it's a system that it's something that we do that includes perception and understanding and reasoning and the ability to do plan. And that loop is fundamentally what intelligence is. Intelligence is not one word that is exactly equal to humanity. And that's, I think, really important to separate the two. We have two words for that. I'm not, I don't over fantasize about, and I don't over-romanticize about intelligence. Intelligence, and people I've heard me say it before, I actually think intelligence is a commodity. I'm surrounded by intelligent people I'm surrounded by intelligent people more intelligent than I am in each one of the spaces that they're in.”

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  14. “All of those feelings manifest in human performance, for example extremely amazing human performance, athletic performance, you know, average or lesser than average. That entire spectrum of human performance that comes out of exactly the same circumstances for different people manifesting in different outcome, manifesting in different performance I don't think there's anything about anything that we're building that would suggest that two different computers being presented with all of exactly the same context would perform of course it would produce statistically different outcomes, but it's not because it felt different.”

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  15. “I don't know if the chip will ever get nervous. And that's the, you know, of course, the conditions by which that causes anxiety or nervousness or whatever emotion I believe that AI will be able to recognize those and understand those. I don't think my chips will field those. And therefore, how that anxiety, how that feeling, how that excitement, how that, you know,”

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  16. “Where do I go? Questions When you go to Taiwan, just ask AI what are Jensen's favorite? Restaurants in Taiwan And it will actually tell you? Oh, yeah,”

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  17. “And because it will automate it. If your job is the task, if your job is the task, then you're very highly going to be disrupted. Jobs, purpose includes certain tasks, then it's vital that you go learn how to use AI to automate those tasks. And then there's the world of spectrum in between.”

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  18. “I would hire the one who is expert in using AI. And so I would advise that every college student, every teacher should encourage their student to go use AI, every college student should graduate and be an expert in AI. And everybody, if you're a carpenter, if you're an electrician, go use AI. Go see what it can do to transform your current job, elevate yourself. If I were a farmer, I would absolutely use AI. If I were a pharmacist, pharmacist, I would use AI. I want to see what it could do to elevate my job so that I could be the innovator to revolutionize this industry myself. And so that would be the first thing that I would do. And then I would also Also, help them. It is the case that the technology will dislocate and will eliminate many tasks.”

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  19. “So, my first recommendation before, and this is now how I deal with anxiety. In fact, we just talked about it earlier. Enormous anxiety about the future, enormous anxiety about the pressure, enormous anxiety about uncertainty. First, break it down And then I'm going to tell myself. Okay, there are some things you can do something about. There are some things you can't do anything about. But for the stuff that you can do something about, let's reason about it. And let's go do it. If we were to hire a new college graduate today, I have a choice between two one that has no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI. I would hire the one who's expert in using AI. If I had an accountant, a marketing person. One that is expert in using AI supply chain, customer service, a salesperson, business development, a lawyer.”

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  20. “And the level of specification, the level of architecture definition relates to that. And so Everybody's gonna have to learn how, where in the spectrum of coding they want to be. Writing a specification is coding. And so you might decide to be quite prescriptive because there's a very specific outcome you're looking for. You might decide that, you know, this is an area you want to be much more exploratory. And so you might underspecify and enable you to go back and forth with the AI to even push your own boundaries of creativity. And so this artistry of where you are in the spectrum, this is the future of coding.”

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  21. “And the reason for that, Alex, you know, as I'll say, for the audience, I think The goal of specification, the artistry of specification, the goal and the artistry of it, is going to depend on what problem you're trying to solve. When I'm thinking about giving the company strategies and formulating corporate directions and things that we should do, I describe it at a level that is sufficiently specific that people generally understand the direction and it's actionable. It's so specific enough that they can take action on it. But I underspecify it on purpose so that enable 43,000 amazing people to make it even better than I imagined. And so when I'm working with engineers, when I'm working with people, I think about what problem am I trying to solve? Who am I working with?”

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  22. “Artistry just elevated tremendously. I believe that every accountant is, you know, also your financial analyst, also your financial advisor. So all of these professions have just been elevated. And if I were a carpenter, I see AI, I would just completely go berserk. The services I can bring to my clients, if I were a plumber, completely go berserk.”

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  23. “Reason for that is this What is the definition of coding? I believe the definition coding as of today is simply specifying specification and maybe if you want to be rather directive, you could even give it an architecture of the software the year you wanted to write. So the question is how many people could do that? Describe a specification for a computer to go telling the computer what to go build, how many people I think we just went from 30 million to probably 1 billion. And so every carpenter in the future will be a coder, except a carpenter with AI is also an architect. They just increase the value that they could deliver to the customer. Their”

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  24. “You know, but their job, their purpose of their job didn't change. Solving problems, working as a team, diagnosing problems, evaluating the result, looking for new problems to solve, innovation, connecting dots. You know, none of that stuff is going to go away”

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  25. “And because we're able to study scans so much faster now, you could study more scans, you could diagnose better, you could Could impatient faster. We can see people more. The hospitals are making more money. You have more patients in the hospital. You need more radiologists. I mean, the amazing thing is... It's so obvious this was going to happen. The number of software engineers at NVIDIA is going to grow, not decline. And the reason for that is because the purpose of a software engineer and the task of a software engineer coding are related not the same. I wanted my software engineers to solve problems. I didn't care how many lines of code they wrote.”

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  26. “Computer vision was superhuman in 2019, maybe a little bit later 2020. Okay. And so it's been a long time since computer vision has been superhuman. And so the prediction was radiologists would go away because studying radiology scans was a thing of the past. AI will do that. Well, they were absolutely right. Computer vision is completely superhuman. Every radiology platform and package today is driven by AI. And yet, the number of radiologists grew. And so the question is why, and we now have a shortage of radiologists in the world. And so one the alarmist warning went too far and scared people from Doing this profession that is so important to society, and so it did harm. Now why was it wrong? The reason why is because The purpose of a radiologist, the purpose is to diagnose disease and help patients and doctors. Diagnosed dis”

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  27. “And I just want to remind them that the purpose of your job and the tasks and tools that you use to do your job are related not the same. I've been doing my job for 33 years. I'm the longest running Tech CU in the world, 34 years. And the tools that I've used to do my job has changed. Continuously in the last 34 years and sometimes quite dramatically over the course of couple to three years. And the one story that I really want to make sure that everybody hears is the story, the first job that computer scientists said AI researcher said was going to go away was radiology because computer vision was going to achieve superhuman levels. And it did.”

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  28. “It's like, what do you mean? I could just Well, by the way, it's happening right now, right? You know that when you go to China, you're going to see a whole bunch of people teaching their claws to try to go out and look for jobs and do work, make money. And I'm not actually, I wouldn't be surprised if some social thing happened or somebody created a digital influencer super, super cute, or some social application that feeds your little tomagoti or something like that. And it becomes out of the blue, an instant success. A lot of people use it for a couple of months and it kind of dies away. Now, the odds of... A hundred thousand of those agents building NVIDIA 0%. And then the one part that I won't do, and I want to make sure we all do, is to recognize that people are really worried about their jobs.”

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  29. “It's just that I don't know what it is, but I couldn't have predicted any of those companies at the time either, you know?”

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  30. “Possible. And the reason for that is you said villain and you didn't say forever. And so, for example, It is not out of the question that A claw was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that All of a sudden, you know. A few billion people used for 50 cents. And then it went out of business again shortly after. Now we saw a whole bunch of those type of companies during the internet era and most of those websites were not anything more sophisticated than what OpenClaw could generate today.”

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  31. “I do that all the time. One of my favorite things We created this thing called RTX mod. Yeah, it's a modding tool. And it allows the community to inject the latest technology into an old game.”

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  32. “I would say doom from the intersection of the cultural implication as well as the industry turning a PC into a gaming device. That was a very important moment. Now, of course, flight simulation companies were before it, but they just didn't have the popularity that Doom did to have made the industry turn the PC from a office automation tool into a personal computer for families and gamers and things like that. And so Doom was really impactful there. From an actual game technology perspective, I would say virtual fighter. And so we're great friends with both of them”

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  33. “That's right. It's yet another tool. And they want the generative models to generate the opposite of photoreal. Yeah, it'll do that too. And so just yet another tool. I think the gamers might also appreciate that in the last couple years, We introduced skin shaders. To the game developers, and many of those games have skin shaders that include subsurface scattering that make skin look more skin like, and so the industries, game developers are looking for more and more and more tools to express their art. And so this is just yet one more tool. They get this out to use.”

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  34. “I think that they got the impression that the games are going to come out the way the games are, ship the way they do, and then we're going to post-process it. That's not what DLSS is intended to do. DLSS is integrated with the artist. And so it's about giving the artist the tool of AI, the tool of generative AI. They could decide not to use it, you know.”

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  35. “DLSS 5 also lets because the system is open you could train your own models to determine and you could even in the future prompt it you know I want it to be a tune shader I wanted to look like this kind of you know so you can give it even an example and it would generate in the style of that all consistent with the artistry you know the style the intent of the artist and so all of that is done Forty artists so that they can create something that is more beautiful, but still in the style that they want.”

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  36. “Yeah, I think their perspective makes sense, and I could see where they're coming from because I don't love AI slot myself. All of the AI generated content increasingly looks similar and they're all beautiful. And I can't, I'm empathetic towards what they're thinking. That's just not what DLSS 5 is trying to do. I showed several examples of it. But DLSS-5 is 3D conditioned, 3D guided. Its ground truth, structure data guided. And so the artist determined the geometry. We are completely truthful. To the geometry maintained so in every single frame. It's conditioned by the textures, the artistry of the artist. And so every single frame, it enhances, but it doesn't change anything. Now, the question is, the question about enhancing.”

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  37. “The way it is GForce is our still to this day Our number one marketing strategy. People learn about NVIDIA while they're in their teenage years. And then they go to college and they know who NVIDIA is. And then in the beginning, it's just playing college. And then later they're using CUDA. And then later they're using NVIDIA and, you know. Blender and Dassault and AutoDusk.”

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  38. “And I want to make sure that you understand what I'm saying, not because I told you. Because I'm so humble about what I'm about to tell you, I kind of show you the steps that I got there. And then you could decide whether you believe what I said in the end. And so I'm doing that all day long in meetings with all of my employees. I'm constantly reasoning through. Let me tell you how I see it. And I reason through it. It gives everybody the opportunity to intercept and say, I disagree with that part. The nice thing about reasoning through things and letting people interact with it is that they don't have to disagree with your outcome. They can disagree with your reasoning steps. And they could pull me in different directions, and then we can reason forward. And so we're kind of. Collective path searching method and it's really fantastic.”

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  39. “Most of the things that I say outside, I'm fairly certain about. And the reason for that is because it's going to impact somebody else. And I want to be quite concerned about that, quite circumspect about that. For stuff that I'm reasoning about inside a meeting, a lot of things could turn out differently. And so, but it doesn't ever stop me from reasoning. The way that I manage and lead, I'm constantly reasoning in front of people. And even when I'm talking to you, you can kind of see me kind of reasoning through things.”

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  40. “Surprisingly no, and I would actually go the other way because I do so much of my work publicly. When I'm wrong, pretty much everybody sees it. You get humbled. Yeah. And when I'm wrong, when I'm wrong or it didn't turn out that way or”

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  41. “And I'm fortunate that whatever life experiences led to this, I've got kind of those four or five things. You know, I'm always curious, always learning. I'm always learning from everybody. You know, I'm always asking because I'm humble about everything. I'm always thinking, gosh, they did that so nicely. They did that so wonderfully. I wonder what they're thinking through. How do they, you know, so I'm simulating everybody in a lot of ways, you know, emulating almost everybody I watch, right? You're empathetic towards everything that they do, that you're observing and respect. And so you're constantly learning and...”

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  42. “My assumptions about the future and why the future is going to manifest. So long as those assumptions and that input. Doesn't change or didn't change materially, then I should expect that the output won't change. And so my simulated output of the future is still going to happen. And if it's still going to happen Still going to go after it. I believe it's going to, you know, and so there's a combination of two or three human characteristics. Ability to go into an experienced fresh minded, the ability to forget the setbacks? The ability to believe in yourself To believe what you believe and stay true to that belief. But you're constantly reevaluating. This combination of three, four, five things, I think is really important for resilience.”

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  43. “Oversimulate everything and all the setbacks and all the trials and tribulations and all the disappointments. You don't want to simulate all that in advance. You don't want to know that. You want to go into a new experience thinking it's going to be perfect. It's going to be great. It's going to be incredibly fun. And then while you're there, you know, you need to have endurance. You need to have grit so that when the setbacks actually happened and those setbacks are going to surprise you, the disappointments aren't going to surprise you. You know, the embarrassments are going to surprise you. The humiliations are going to surprise you. You just can't, now you just got to turn on the other bit, which is just forget about it. Move on. Keep moving. And to the extent that... To the extent that”

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  44. “Exactly. That is, by the way, what I was trying to explain is that there's a incredible superpower of being have the mind of a child. And I say to myself oftentimes when I look at something and almost almost everything. My first thought is how hard can it be? And so you get yourself into that mode. How hard could it be? And nobody's ever done it. It looks gigantic. It's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. It's going to take, you know, all this. And you just go, yeah, but how hard could it be? How far And so you got to get yourself into that state of mind. You don't want to actually.”

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  45. “Let you do fair money your job publicly too. And so I do a lot of my job publicly. And so, you know, I say a lot of things that seem sensible at a time or funny at the time, mostly just because it's funny to me at the time. And then, you know, you reflect on it's less money.”

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  46. “Whatever worries me, tell somebody else, don't just keep it. Don't freak them out. Decompose the problem into smaller parts and get people to and inspire them to be able to go do something about it. But part of it is just forgetting. A lot of it is you got to be tough on yourself. Come on, stop crying about it. Let's get going. And then you get out of bed. And then the other part is you're attracted to the next shiny light, the next future. The next opportunity, the next, okay, that's behind us. What's next? It's a lot. I think, you know, you watch this with great athletes. They just worry about the next point. The last point is behind them. The embarrassment. You know, a setback. And because I do so much my job publicly.”

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  47. “And part of, you know, likes part of it, part of it is forgetting. One of the most important attributes of AI learning, as you know, is systematic forgetting. You need to know when to forget some things. You can't memorize everything. You can't keep everything. You don't want to carry everything. One of the things that I do very quickly is I decompose the problem, I reason about the problem, and I shared a load with it. When I say I tell everybody, I'm essentially sharing that burden. As quickly as possible”

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  48. “I'm fairly tough on myself. But I also break things down so that I don't panic. I can go to sleep because I've made the list of things that needed to be done. And I've made sure that everything that could put our company in harm's way could put my partners in harm's way, put our industry in harm's way. I've told somebody. Everything that I feel. Could put anybody in harm's way. I've told someone. And I've told that someone who could do something about it. And so I've gotten it off my chest, or I'm doing something about it. And so after that, Lex, what else can you do?”

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  49. “Therefore, what are you going to do about it? In almost everything that I feel, I break it down, I reason about, okay, what's the circumstance? What has changed? What's hard? And what am I going to do about it? And I break it down, decompose the problem And the decomposition of these. Circumstances Turns it into manageable things that I can do. And the only thing that after that I could do is, did you do it? Did you either do it or did you get somebody else to do it? And if you didn't do it, you reasoned that you need to do it and you didn't do it and you didn't get anybody else to do it, then stop crying about it. And so I'm fairly.”

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  50. “How we build things back to the United States in so many different plants, chips, computers, and of course these AI factories, I'm completely aware that, and I have the benefit, and this is a real, real gift with mainstream investors, teachers, policemen who have somehow, for whatever reason, invested in NVIDIA or because they watch Jim Kramer bought some stock and now are millionaires. And I am completely aware of that circumstance. I'm aware of the circumstance that NVIDIA Is central to a very large network of ecosystem partners behind us and downstream from us. And so the way I deal with that is exactly what I just did. I reason about what is it that we're doing. What is the impact that has on other people benefit positively or even Even through great burden, for example, to supply chain And the question is”

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