#20 - The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

Diving into The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim (https://a.co/d/gEccKXp), exploring 12 ideas and lessons that shine a light on how Jensen Huang turned an idea formed by 3 guys in a Denny's in 1993 into the world's most valuable company.

What lessons did Nvidia learn along the way?

What did they learn about human nature?

And how did they use those lessons to build the culture, the operating system, of the company today? An operating system that has led this group of people to create some of the most advanced technologies the world has ever seen.

That's what we're going to be studying on Podcast #20.

00:00 Introduction to The NVIDIA Way

04:56 #1: The Nvidia Way is Jensen

07:35 #2: "We're 30 days from going out of business"

11:31 #3: Long Hours

14:51 #4: Honing the Sword

18:32 #5: Extremely flat organiztion

21:13 #6: Extreme Transparency and Alignment

25:39 #7: Public Criticism

30:38 #8: Pilot in Command

32:10 #9: No one loses alone

34:35 #10: Whiteboard

40:15 #11: Know more about the customers' businesses than the customers themselves do

43:54 #12: Unwavering Beliefs

47:31 Closing