Lesson for his younger self: there’s plenty of time

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Prioritize yourself properly and make sure that you don't let Outlook be the controller of your time. Andy Groves' books are really good. Don Valentine is grumpy but endearing, and he cares about the companies he invests in. Despite his tough exterior, he's a real sweetheart. Additionally, the speaker's belief that there is plenty of time and the importance of proper prioritization is something that their younger self would have pushed back on.

We finally sit down with the man himself: Nvidia Cofounder & CEO Jensen Huang. After three parts and seven+ hours of covering the company, we thought we knew everything but — unsurprisingly — Jensen knows more. A couple teasers: we learned that the company’s initial motivation to enter the datacenter business came from perhaps not where you’d think, and the roots of Nvidia’s platform strategy stretch back beyond CUDA all the way to the origin of the company.

We also got a peek into Jensen’s mindset and calculus behind “betting the company” multiple times, and his surprising feelings about whether he’d go on the founder journey again if he could rewind time. We can’t think of any better way to tie a bow on our Nvidia series (for now). Tune in!

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