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So many good nuggets from Tae Kim’s “The Nvidia Way”: amazon.com/Nvidia-Way-Jen
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Trung Phan
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Been reading Tae Kim’s new book “The Nvidia Way”.
So many good nuggets including this excerpt on why Jensen Huang keeps a flat management structure with 60+ direct reports (he says Nvidia designes like an F1 “race car” that he “knows how to drive”):
serious alpha here
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Guess he is building character of his employees thru suffering
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“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
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I like how the only Huang-relevant info on that entire page is him simply saying "Hey, what's up?"
Founder mode: "hey, what have you upped this week?"
This line hurts but it is worth it. Whenever someone asks Jensen for advice on how to achieve success, his answer has been consistent over the years: “I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.”.
Nah, I think that's just wrong. It speaks volumes if the leader don't know what people are doing at their companies, that they'd have to ask, even going as far as the bathroom being unprofessional and asking me hat they got done.
Wrong and unacceptable!
Jensen's leadership style is both relentless and unexpected, even in the most awkward settings.
I can understand a noncommittal response given the location and vagueness of the question 
"it's a little self-explanatory at the moment, isn't it?" would have been my knee-jerk literal response, but maybe that'd not have gone so well
"it's a little self-explanatory at the moment, isn't it?" would have been my knee-jerk literal response, but maybe that'd not have gone so well
I tried analyzing Jensen founder mode based on listening to all his interviews over last 3 years
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There are currently at least 2 founders who do this effectively - Elon and Jensen.
I have heard/ read almost all their interviews over past 4 years and there are many tangible principles they have explicitly mentioned. I will try and summarize in this thread as I discover. x.com/paulg/status/1…
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Jensen's leadership style is both relentless and unexpected, even in the most awkward settings.
Others : get your elevator pitch ready
Nvidia employees : get your urinal pitch ready
I assume this is a real story?
If a boss does this to you while you are taking a leak you should tell them to... fk off.
Elevated his privileges to talking while holding wiener. That's a ballsy move.
Had the CIO of a previous team I was on try that shit with me. I told him he won't ever get me to speak in the restroom outside of "hello." and bounced.
Not all founders are meant to be CEOs, and that's okay.
Take Pieter Levels. Despite shipping multiple successful products, he never raised funding.
Why?
Because the pressure to scale never appealed to him.
And while many of his friends took the VC route, many now wish they’d
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