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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NVIDIA comes up
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 20:44 David Senra It wasn't 10, in NVIDIA's case, it wasn't the value came 10 to 15 years into the company.
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
- ▶ 7:43 David Senra There's a line from the founder of Nvidia, Jensen Wong.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 25:55 David Senra Jensen was embarrassed by his performance as CEO of Nvidia for the first 15 years.
- ▶ 40:26 David Senra This is again, Jensen did this at NVIDIA and with, with CUDA and GPUs.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 0:07 David Senra The episode that I made on the book the first time I read it covered a lot of Jensen's life and then how he built NVIDIA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22 David Senra They say that you can talk to two unrelated NVIDIA employees who don't know each other, and they still will say the same thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:18 unnamed speaker Jensen resists overly positive accounts of Nvidia startup period and his own missteps. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 David Senra When we were a small company, we were plenty bureaucratic and plenty political. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 David Senra Ultimately, it was his responsibility to ensure that Nvidia's teams collaborated effectively, no matter how large the company got. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:07 David Senra At the company says, I'll never forget this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:56 David Senra Jensen decided that Nvidia needed to invest more in tools for accelerating workloads on its GPUs.
- ▶ 37:22 David Senra These parts were not suitable for the company's Ferrari-grade chips, but they were otherwise functional at lower speeds. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:49 David Senra Jensen believed that NVIDIA was nothing like any other company that ever existed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 David Senra So the idea that turns Nvidia into a multi-trillion dollar company actually came from their customers coming up with unique ways to use their product. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:18 David Senra I love NVIDIA.
The Wallenberg Family Dynasty
- ▶ 48:37 David Senra Jensen focused on running Nvidia the whole time.
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 2:49 David Senra The book is a company history of NVIDIA, but that is not what I want to talk to you about. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:46 David Senra Really the reason I want to add this like extra context for Jensen's early life for you is because I think this entire section and all the notes and stuff that I want to talk to you about before the founding of NVIDIA and really the first… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 David Senra So I want to get into a very important part of like the prehistory of NVIDIA and Jensen is working at this company called LSI logic.
- ▶ 12:41 David Senra One, he's going to pick up this maxim that he'll repeat throughout as he's building NVIDIA.
- ▶ 18:15 David Senra And this, this is the third reason that I wanted to talk about Jensen's time at LSI logic and how it was so important to the pre-history of NVIDIA, because what is Corrigan do?
- ▶ 19:36 David Senra That when he goes and pitches what's going to be NVIDIA to Don Valentine, he's like, my pitch was horrendous.
- ▶ 22:23 David Senra But I do have to get to the beginning of NVIDIA because it's funny he describes this because I went back and actually looked at like the financial performance of NVIDIA and the market cap. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 David Senra He's got a lot of new ideas on how to run NVIDIA and he wouldn't have had them had he not gone through the painful and tumultuous time in the company's early history. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 David Senra And so in the book, it says at many of the meetings that he attends in the video, he will leap up with marker in hand and diagram a problem or sketch an idea.
- ▶ 31:44 David Senra So idea number two, NVIDIA is Jensen with 29,000 lives. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 David Senra At NVIDIA, the whiteboard is a primary form of communication and meetings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:09 David Senra There is a vast cultural difference between NVIDIA and other companies.
- ▶ 42:16 David Senra So Jensen offers NVIDIA employees direct criticism in large meetings.
- ▶ 46:08 David Senra This is much later in Nividia's history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:34 David Senra Jensen decree that NVIDIA would have to develop their driver software for the Riva one, two, eight before the prototype chip was completed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 David Senra No place in a video headquarters was safe from a drive-by grilling from Jensen. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:39 David Senra So Jensen asks every employee in a video at all levels that you have to send an email and they're called like T five 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:14 David Senra Uh, Jensen organized NVIDIA's employees into groups centralized by functions, sales, engineering, operations, and so on.
- ▶ 1:09:37 David Senra If you are talented in contributing to Nvidia's mission, Jensen will choke you with gold. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:00 David Senra Uh, for his entire, Jensen is, keep in mind, Jensen has run NVIDIA for over three decades. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:57 David Senra And so there's a line in the book that says Jensen runs the company the way he does because he believes that NVIDIA's worst enemy is not the competition, but itself, the complacency that grips any successful company. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:12 David Senra And so there's an actual NVIDIA employee who's there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:49 David Senra But what Jensen was setting out to do, he really believed that he was building a company that was unlike any other company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:40 David Senra And the reason this one is last is because it's going to describe the massive historical opportunity that NVIDIA has pursued in artificial intelligence. 19 times in the scene