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What Jensen Huang thinks about startups

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Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993.

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6 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jensen Huang has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThe technology a company is founded on can be exactly wrong and still not matter, so long as the founders confront reality and can learn.

    Their wordsthe the big lesson is that for me is technology is changing all the time, and so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn, the technology itself actually doesn't matter.

    ↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 1st of 20 in this recording

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  3. Our readingWhat makes a great company is a unique perspective about the world that its founders deeply believe in — not the technology and not even the market.

    Their wordsone of the things I've always believed believed in is what makes great companies is a unique perspective about the world that you deeply believe in. It's not so much the technology, it's not so much uh the market even.

    ↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording

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  5. Our readingThis is the greatest time in sixty years to start a company, because the computer itself has been completely reset.

    Their wordsObviously, this is the greatest time in the last 60 years to start a company. The whole industry has changed. It's a complete reset from a technology perspective. The single most important technology in human history, the computer, has been completely reset.

    ↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

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  6. 3 months earlier

  7. Our readingNvidia's real miss was not seeing that a frontier lab could never be funded by venture capital, so its compute suppliers had to become its investors.

    Their wordsNor nor did I I would say my mistake is I didn't deeply internalize that they they really had no other options that that that a VC would never put in 510 billion of investment into an AI lab with the with the hopes of it turning out to be anthropic. And so that was my miss.

    ↗Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com 14th of 24 in this recording

    Anthropicsemiconductorsventure capitalinvesting

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  8. 3 months earlier

  9. Our readingWhen CEOs and PhDs describe end-of-the-world scenarios to governments, ask whether the purpose of the narrative is regulation that suffocates startups.

    Their wordsUm, you have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what is their what are their intentions and what do they hope? Why are they why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?

    ↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

    Interesting

  11. Our readingNo country in the world contributes more to open source than China, and American startups are built on what it gives away.

    Their wordsdon't forget China also contributed tremendously to open source. No country in the world contributes more to open source than China. And look at all the startups here in America that were able to benefit from that open source to create the the new startups that are here.

    ↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

    open sourceChinaAmerica

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