Jensen Huang
Founder and CEO, NVIDIA · 0 appearances on the record.
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Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993, pioneering the graphics processing unit in 1999 and the CUDA platform in 2006. Under his multi-decade leadership, NVIDIA transitioned from computer graphics into a leading provider of semiconductor hardware and accelerated computing systems powering the global artificial intelligence industry.
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The other half of the tape: Jensen Huang's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 257 times in 59 episodes on Big Technology. 17 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Alex Kantrowitz 159Jim Cramer 18David Cahn 17Ranjan Roy 15M.G. Siegler 7Aaron Levie 7Ed Zitron 5Rev Lebaredian 3
Statements about Jensen Huang, by other people (17)
Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang privately cited OpenAI's lack of discipline in deal pullback
“In recent months, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang has privately emphasized to industry associates that the original one hundred billion dollar agreement was non-binding And not finalized. He also said, he also privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipl…”
Amodei: Accusations That Anthropic Seeks an AI Monopoly Are 'Bad Faith'
“I've said nothing that, that any, that anywhere near resembles the idea that this company should be the only one to build the technology. I don't know how anyone could ever derive that from anything that I've said. It's just, yeah, yeah, it's just a, it's just…”
Gelsinger: Nvidia got lucky on AI because AI workloads resemble graphics
“Yeah, and it very much is that way, and Jensen and I, you know, we've known each other for 35 years, you know, this general purpose workload, and we always are adding more capabilities to the CPU, but over here, it was always just go really fast for graphics, …”
Nvidia CEO calls OpenClaw the biggest milestone since ChatGPT
“Jensen Wong, the NVIDIA CEO, happens to be driving the whole thing. Four and a half trillion dollar company, which is crazy. Just said that OpenClaw is the most important thing after ChatGPT.”
Cramer says a $10 trillion market valuation is possible for Nvidia
“Yes, I do, because when it was at three hundred billion, he told me it could be a couple trillion, and everyone laughed.”
Parker: Jensen Huang knows more about healthcare than most healthcare companies
“I think Jensen knows more about healthcare than most healthcare companies.”
Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang Became Defensive in Dwarkesh Patel Interview
“I think Jensen became very defensive in this conversation with Dwarkesh, which is why it led to this sort of heated back and forth”
Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang Can Become the Steve Jobs of AI
“He has a chance to be sort of the Steve Jobs of AI, and maybe he's already there, but you know, he can be the visionary that explains and makes the, like we were saying last week, someone's got to make a case for this technology and do it well, because the pol…”
Huang says Nvidia's investment in OpenAI might be its last
“Jensen Wong said the thirty billion dollars that he and NVIDIA invested in OpenAI might be the last. Why? Is it because he doesn't trust Sam Altman, or is it because, you know, he doesn't believe in the technology? No. He says the reason for that is because th…”
Roy: Nvidia's Valuation Will Take a Hit If OpenAI Flops
“He does need open AI to succeed. He does like Nvidia at the current valuation and story needs all these like AI to just be an unquestioned success and open AI. If it completely flops, even if a lot of that value accrues to a Google or Microsoft, I really think…”
Guthrie claims Microsoft is likely Nvidia's largest customer in the world
“NVIDIA is a fantastic partner of ours. We're probably one of, if not the biggest customer in the world of theirs. And we partner super deeply with Jensen and his team.”
Catanzaro: About 40% of NVIDIA data center GPUs go to inference
“Jensen said in the earnings call this week that somewhere around 40% of our data center GPUs were going for inference, which I think is you know, pretty amazing and definitely a shift from where things have been a few years ago.”
Alex Kantrowitz: Jensen Huang successfully projects a relatable everyman persona despite wealth
“He comes off in a way, even though he's one of the richest men on the planet, kind of as an everyman. He doesn't have these. He's clearly, he has an ego. I mean, you're running a company like that. You have an ego, but he's humble.”
Ranjan Roy: AI leaders must show the technology improving work-life balance
“I think what the world needs here is actually someone who can show that AI has actually helped them balance their life a bit more. I think he's got to just shift that a little bit, show him on vacation a little bit as his agents are doing his work. Spending ti…”
Altman and Huang negotiated NVIDIA-OpenAI mega-deal without investment banks
“And it is notable that Sam Altman and Jensen Huang apparently negotiated the deal with no banks involved.”
Shapiro: NVIDIA operates with dynamic virtual teams rather than rigid org charts
“Kind of come second, and in fact, the notion of the group is kind of dynamic, and we really don't have much of an org chart in the company. Jensen says the mission is the boss, and so we have these virtual teams. There's a lot of cross-functional work that goe…”
Lebaredian: Over 650 NVIDIA employees reached a 20-year tenure
“When he got to 20, there were more than 650 people that were at twenty-year. Now, earlier I had said, when I joined the company, there were about a thousand people. So this means that most of the people That were there when I started at NVIDIA were still there…”
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2026 165 mentions in 28 episodes 6 per episode
- Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
- How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
- AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 73 mentions in 25 episodes 3 per episode
- CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- Microsoft's Cloud & AI Head on the AI Buildout's Risks and ROI — With Scott Guthrie
- OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- NVIDIA's Artifical Intelligence Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
- AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
- NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro
- Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Jensen Huang was played rather than Jensen taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
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| Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot | Apr 20, 2026 | 9s | clip played |