Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA

In this View From The Top interview, Shantam Jain, MBA 24, speaks with Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA. As of March 1, 2024, NVIDIA is the third most valuable company on Wall Street, with over 2T in market value. Jensen shares his experience founding NVIDIA, getting funded, building the first killer application for NVIDIAs technology, deciding which markets are worth exploring, finding the conviction in making nonconsensus bets, steering the company through challenging times, designing the right organization structure, and finally, his views on the AI revolution. Excerpts from the interview: On reputation: You can have a good or bad interview, but you can t run away from your past, so have a good past; I was probably Denny s first job best dishwasher On early days: In order for NVIDIA to succeed we needed another startup to succeedEA and EAs CTO was 14 and had to be driven to work by his mom thats who we were relying on On markets: