Huang initially said he wouldn't have started NVIDIA had he known the hardship, but later claimed he was taken out of context and would.
THEN · Oct 16, 2023
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NOW · Sep 30, 2024
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“The reason why I wouldn't do it, and it goes back to why it's so hard, is building a company and building a video turned out to have been a million times harder than I expected it to be, any of us expected it to be. And at that time, if we realized the pain and suffering and just how vulnerable you, you're gonna feel, um, and the challenges that you're gonna endure, uh, the embarrassment and the shame and, you know, the list of all the things that, that go wrong, I don't think anybody would start a company. Nobody in their right mind would do it.”
“Of course, I, it was taken out of context, um, 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.”