Overview
- On The Joe Rogan Experience, Huang repeated his mantra that Nvidia is always “30 days from going out of business” and said he lives in a constant state of anxiety.
- He said he works seven days a week, including holidays, and reads several thousand emails a day to maintain vigilance.
- He recounted a mid-1990s crisis when Sega CEO Shoichiro Irimajiri provided a $5 million lifeline after Nvidia’s early graphics effort faltered.
- He described leadership as vulnerability that permits strategic pivots and as a lifetime of sacrifice focused on choosing what not to do.
- He noted that both of his children now work at Nvidia and asserted that the company invented the GPU and CUDA, which he said helped ignite an AI industrial revolution.