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Nvidia\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang has gone from the bottom to becoming a multi-billionaire, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s above doing the little tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old CEO of the world\u2019s most valuable company said his humble roots as a dishwasher have, in fact, helped him learn to spurn no task. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can’t show me a task that is beneath me,\u201d he said in an interview with Stanford\u2019s graduate school of business, which recently resurfaced on X.<\/p>\n
Even in his most humble of jobs, the world\u2019s ninth-richest man never shied away from the dirty work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cleaned a lot of toilets. I’ve cleaned more toilets than all of you combined, and some of them you just can’t unsee,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
If someone approaches Huang with a call for help, he said he tries to at least contribute. That way, at least, the person with the problem can see a new way of thinking about the problem, he added. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you send me something and you want my input on it, and I can be of service to you, and in my review of it, share with you how I reason through it, I’ve made a contribution to you,\u201d Huang said. \u201cI’ve made it possible for you to see how I reason through something, and by reasoning, as you know, how someone reasons through something empowers you.\u201d<\/p>\n
These values have been fundamental to Huang\u2019s leadership style and are partly why he is worth $161.8 billion, according to Forbes<\/em>. Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to the U.S. at age 9 without his parents. As a teenager, he took a job as a dishwasher at Denny\u2019s. <\/p>\n It was actually at Denny\u2019s where Nvidia, Huang\u2019s future company, got its start, according to the Nvidia website. <\/p>\n Years after he worked at the chain as a dishwasher, the Stanford graduate met with his future cofounders, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, to discuss the idea of a chip that would make 3D graphics possible on a PC. This idea sparked what would later become Nvidia, a chip empire that is now worth $4.5 trillion.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t easy at first, according to Huang. When he presented the idea to his boss at LSI Logic, Wilfred Corrigan, he called it \u201cone of the worst elevator pitches he’s ever heard.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Corrigan convinced Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia Capital, to hear the pitch because of Huang\u2019s strong work ethic.<\/p>\n Elon Musk, who actually played a role in Nvidia\u2019s origin story, commented on the resurfaced Huang interview this week. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is the way,\u201d Musk wrote on X. When Nvidia introduced its first AI supercomputer, Musk was apparently the only one who reached out, saying he had a \u201ca nonprofit AI lab\u201d in need of such a product. Despite Huang\u2019s skepticism that a nonprofit would buy a $300,000 computer, he personally delivered it to San Francisco to what he later realized was the OpenAI team behind ChatGPT. Musk left OpenAI in 2018.<\/p>\n This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n #Nvidia #CEO #Jensen #Huang #humility #underrated #leadership #trait #show #task #beneath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nvidia\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang has … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[689,637,923,529,624,5555,5556,5554,2784,1055,1056,1944,1582,5553,1609,5559,953,954,5558,5557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}