Why Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is 'jealous' of young founders
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his perspective on entrepreneurship, encouraging young founders to avoid over-analyzing potential failures. He emphasized that his own success was built on a willingness to learn and adapt rather than a need to be right.
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Insights from the leader of one of the world's most valuable companies provide valuable lessons for the startup ecosystem and AI industry.
Jensen Huang has spent 33 years telling himself that Nvidia is about a month away from collapse. The phrase has outlasted the botched Sega contract that nearly finished the company in 1996, the layoffs that followed it, and the AI boom that has since pushed Nvidia's market value to roughly $4.7 trillion. None of that paranoia, it turns out, extends to other people.Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 this week, in conversation with YC chief executive Garry Tan, the 63-year-old Nvidia CEO told the room that this is the single greatest time in history to start a company. Then he went a step further and said he was jealous of the founders sitting in front of him. His argument was not really about model capabilities or funding markets.
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