Huang: 'Founder mode' can scale a company to five trillion dollars
Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator · Jul 26, 2026 · at 19:00
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discusses with Garry Tan how hands-on, founder-led leadership can endure and scale over decades.
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“Founder mode could scale for 34 years. From zero to five trillion.”
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