Jensen

“People who train for the Olympics grumble about training early in the morning too. Jensen was sending a message. Long hours were a necessary prerequisite for excellence.”

“Jensen saw that Nvidia could stop throwing away parts that failed quality tests. They failed quality tests. If you're building a Ferrari, but not if you're building, you know, a Ford fusion, right? So true. These parts were not suitable for the company's Ferra…”

“NVIDIA would split the design team into three groups. The first would design a new chip architecture while the other two worked in parallel to the first to develop faster derivatives Based on the new chip. What is that? Why? Why would you do that? Because this…”

“This is why I think distilling things down to a list of principles or a handful of maxims is so common and so important because essentially what the leader of the company is doing, what Jensen's doing is you're continuously teaching and reinforcing your compan…”

“And in fact, the people that work with Jensen, they call him professor, professor Jensen. And they talk about the fact that he has a very, he's a, he's really good at explaining complicated concepts in a way that almost anybody can understand. And the way he d…”

“Jensen was a big proponent of public criticism, talked about the fact that you should criticize publicly because it should be a learning experience for the entire company. If you criticize privately, only you and that individual employee actually learned the l…”

“Under the mission is the boss philosophy, Jensen would start every new project by designating a leader, which he calls a pilot in command. That pilot in command will report directly to Jensen. We always have a pilot in command for every project. Whenever Jense…”

“Jensen organized his employees into groups centralized by function. So like sales, engineering, operations, and so on. They were treated as a general pool of talent and not divided by business units or divisions. We take the people that we have, and we're able…”