Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the leading GPU and AI chip manufacturer.
“I'd say put Jensen in that rank lately. It's just like, wow.”
Source→“He focused on CUDA. He focused on NVLink. I want to be a platform company. And he did it.”
Source→“I brought in NVIDIA's Jensen Huang for a $5B investment (now worth $25B+)”
Source→“"AI in the last several months became useful. That's the big idea."”
Source→“Jensen is so truth seeking. It's insane... He wakes up every day and tells himself that he sucks... He tells everybody around him that they're 30 days away from going out of business.”
Source→“A supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan. Right. And then they deliver the equipment. And it takes one year to get it all working. We're talking about 19 days. N of one is right.”
Source→“We manufacture, call it 8 million of them this year, but 72 of them go into a rack. That rack weighs two tons. It is $4 million, has one and a half million parts, and it's the most expensive piece of equipment in the world.”
Source→“Went from a computer industry that was largely based on retrieval for 60 years. And all of a sudden, one day, it's completely generated in real time. We call it intelligence.”
Source→“In the case of NVIDIA and co-design, we got 1,000,000x over 10 years. Somewhere between 100,000x and 1,000,000x. When you're talking about numbers that big, it really doesn't matter.”
“The IBM System/360 defined the computing model in 1964, and everything since…was built on that foundation.”
“John Hennessy at Stanford proved that a simpler instruction set co-designed with a compiler beats two separately optimized systems every time, because the whole outperforms the sum of the parts.”
“The solution — 72 chips ganged into a rack-scale computer (Grace Blackwell NVLink72) — was designed around the actual constraint (bandwidth), not the popular metric.”
“The AI is this multi-billion dollar system and it sends off an instruction to use a tool and that tool is gonna run on the CPU. Meanwhile, this GPU supercomputer, this multi-billion dollar system is waiting for this one CPU.”
“I really like Jensen...the jacket, his style, he's always on point. I would say Jensen is probably one of the coolest.”
Source→“Jensen Huang is a prime example of such a person.”
“Jensen Wang said this week, on AI CapEx infrastructure spend that we'd reach $3 to $4 trillion by 2030.”
Source→“It's not just a great revenue business growing at 80%. It's a wildly profitable operating margin business... that's 200 billion of profit a year.”
Source→“Jensen has laid out well, and everybody talks about the AI stack, starting with power and energy at the bottom, and chips and infrastructure and moving up through the LMs and software and applications and how that plays through.”
Source→“I think that all that stuff is trumped right now by two things. Where's oil? And that's going to be dictated by what happens in the war, geopolitics, and what's happening with AI, both on the spending front, infrastructure, and what's the impact of that going to be on society, and on the economy.”
Source→“I do think Jensen is going to keep open source a certain time frame behind the frontier. I think that's going to be a very interesting thing to watch.”
Source→“I do think it's wild that Jensen has never had a contract with Taiwan Semi. They do business on what seems fair in handshakes.”
Source→“Jensen Huang joining President Trump's delegation to Beijing this week, Nvidia's prospects in China remained murky after the Trump-Xi summit ended without clarity on sales of the company's H200 AI chips as Beijing increasingly pushes Chinese firms toward domestic alternatives like Huawei.”
Source→“Jensen Huang... Referenced for his extreme responsiveness and the lesson he imparted about falling in love with whatever the job demands.”
Source→“NVIDIA is an investor in Abridge. Jensen Huang personally engages with portfolio companies, including late-night calls, with extremely fast response SLAs.”
Source→“Jensen Huang mentioned as part of US business delegation to China alongside Cristiano Amon and Kelly Ortberg at the Trump-Xi summit.”
Source→“Jensen Huang: 'I didn't deeply internalize how difficult it would be to build a foundation AI lab like OpenAI and Anthropic… I'm not going to make that same mistake again.'”
“Jensen math there, but there is at least a genuine 4x increase”
Source→“Downloads or subscriptions go up, revenues spike and you think you're the next Jensen Huang.”
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