Elon Musk thinks Jensen HuangThe 61-year-old CEO of 3 trillion dollars AI chip maker Nvidia has “absolutely the right attitude”.
Musk responded to a post on X on Sunday, highlighting a resurfaced clip of Huang's March interview at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“No task is beneath me,” Huang says in the clip. “Remember, I used to be a dishwasher. I cleaned toilets… that's life. So you can't show me a task that's beneath me.”
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In the clip, Huang answers a question about why he is so engaged with employees and why he designed Nvidia to be a “APARTMENT“organization, or one with as little hierarchy as possible.
Absolutely the right attitude.
During the covid toilet paper shortage, I was making sure our factories and offices had toilet paper!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2024
Huang further explains that if an employee approaches him and asks for help with something unclear or complicated, he will help them reason through it.
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Huang co-founded Nvidia in a Denny's in San Jose, California, in 1993 at the age of 30. Fifteen years ago, he worked on it SAME restaurant as a bus.
Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang. Photo: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In a May CNBC interview, Huang said it was “the most extraordinary thing, that a normal dishwasher bus can grow like this.”
Nvidia is among the Magnificent Seven, a term that describes Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft and Tesla for INFLUENCE in shop.
Since Monday, Nvidia leads the pack in performance, with a year-to-date return of around 151%.
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