NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Discloses The Company’s “Secret Sauce”, Says He Still Serves Dishes The Best

It sometimes feels like NVIDIA was destined to be in the position it currently is, and CEO Jensen Huang has highlighted the company's "secret sauce" in an interview.

Belief, Persistence & Resilience Is What CEOs Should Target For Success, Says NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang

When we see Team Green and how it managed to rise from the very bottom of the markets, it is an iconic sight. What was the reason behind such gigantic success? Many thoughts remain, but the firm's CEO has simplified it.

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In an interview with venture capitalist Navin Chaddha, Jensen says that the company comprises ordinary people with huge visions; however, that wasn't where the essence of success lies. Later on, NVIDIA's CEO said that "persistence, resilience, and belief" was the best part of the company's journey.

Now, when questioned about the one bet NVIDIA laid upon, Jensen says that their primary focus is improving the application of their technologies.

He says that while other companies were involved in a computer power race, NVIDIA focused on providing a suitable medium for their architectures to work upon, ultimately achieving cumulative success in all departments. NVIDIA's CEO claims that they see AI as a "co-design or a full stack" problem, which is evident because of how massively CUDA & other domain-specific libraries have reached the stage where they are seen as the best in the markets.

Speaking a bit about NVIDIA's humble beginnings, Jensen says that he never took his status in the company as pride and instead interacted with everyone on a personal level. Jensen's job as a waiter at Denny's made him realize that he needs to be humble, and he said at the interview that "no one serves better tables than him till now."

The interview was indeed a delight to watch, and it's inspiring to witness how NVIDIA managed to turn a startup of three ordinary engineers into the