Elon Musk thinks Jensen Huang, the 61-year-old CEO of Nvidia, the $3 trillion AI chipmaker, has “absolutely the right attitude.”
Musk responded to X’s post on Sunday, featuring a resurfaced video of a March interview with Huang at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“No job is too hard for me,” Huang says in the video. “Remember, I used to wash dishes. I used to clean toilets… that’s life. So don’t show me a job that’s too hard for me.”
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In the video, Huang answers questions about why he’s so involved with his employees and why he designed NVIDIA as a “flat” organization — with as few hierarchical structures as possible.
That’s exactly the right attitude.
When there was a toilet paper shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, I made sure that factories and offices had toilet paper.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2024
Huang further explains that when employees contact him for help with something vague or complicated, he helps them make sense of it.
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Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 at age 30 at a Denny’s in San Jose, California, after working as a server at the same restaurant 15 years earlier.
Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang. Photo by Annabel Chi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“It’s pretty amazing that an ordinary dishwasher could grow up to be this person,” Huang said in a May interview with CNBC.
Nvidia is one of the “Magnificent Seven,” a term that describes Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla by their market influence.
As of Monday, Nvidia was leading the performance with a year-to-date return of about 151%.
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