This is why smart people rarely build businesses
Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer.
He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise.
His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it.
Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered."
He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up.
This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose.
Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.
There are companies that buy Bitcoin.
There are companies that do not buy Bitcoin.
Guess which category Bitcoiners like to attack?
The world has gone mad.
Jensen Huang: Because of the way I was raised, I have no trouble taking criticism
"Asian parents' way of showing love is to criticize you.
That's their way of saying I love you, I want you to be better, it looks like you did the best you could, but that's not good enough."
Brutal ๐
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's "One More Thing" at the GTC Computex Keynote was an AI slop music video recap of the presentation. Seriously. #NVIDIA#AI $NVDA