Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
Jensen Huang on Acquired.
Passages
Hi, everybody. It's great to join you at Acquired Live. Wow, this is really something. I still remember when I met Dave and Ben. They interviewed me right here on this stage at NVIDIA's headquarters. And now this podcast has attracted an incredible audience. And so I'm really proud of them. And one of the questions that they asked me was, you know, if I knew what I know now, I think, or something like that, you know, would I start NVIDIA all over again? And I said, absolutely not. Of course, it was taken out of context because I was asked about that several times after that. And of course I would start the company if I knew it would turn out this way. The reason why I said what I said was it has everything to do with being an entrepreneur. Building a company is insanely hard. The number of things that you have to know, the amazing people that you have to surround yourself with, the adversaries and all the smart things that they're going to do, and the and the adversities that you're going to be confronted with over time, the mountain of it in the course of 31 years, if I were to take all of that, all the challenges and all the hardship and all the pain and suffering of the last 32 years, and I would have compressed it into the brain of a 29-year-old, there is no way that that person would have started the company. And my point there is the super point of entrepreneurs, which is your superpowers are partly your ignorance, that you don't know how hard it is. And so, I mean, that's what I meant.
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