Key Takeaways 

• The trick of entrepreneurship is convincing yourself that it is not that hard, even when it is 
• “Your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product.” – Jensen Huang   
• Pave the way to future opportunities; you cannot wait until the opportunity is in front of you to reach out for it  
• Many of the great all-time tech companies began by building products and services for developers 
• You don’t have to be that perfect if you can position yourself near opportunities 
• Every person should learn how to use an AI to augment their productivity
• Nvidia tries to position itself in a way that serves a need that is yet to emerge
• Push your chips in when you know it is going to work   
• Don’t do everything; prioritize your time, and make sacrifices, but realize that there is plenty of time in life  

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought we knew everything but — unsurprisingly — Jensen knows more. A couple teasers: we learned that the company’s initial motivation to enter the datacenter business came from perhaps not where you’d think, and the roots of Nvidia’s platform strategy stretch back beyond CUDA all the way to the origin of the company.

We also got a peek into Jensen’s mindset and calculus behind “betting the company” multiple times, and his surprising feelings about whether he’d go on the founder journey again if he could rewind time. We can’t think of any better way to tie a bow on our Nvidia series (for now). Tune in!

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