Jensen Huang on why founders don’t need to be right from day one, but they do need to be able to learn quickly:
“The technology that founded the company turns out to be exactly wrong.”
“I went down to Fry’s, and I bought three textbooks... I brought them back to the company. I gave them to the engineers.”
“Everybody would have thought that NVIDIA started out as world leaders in 3D graphics. We learned it from a textbook.”
“The big lesson for me is technology’s changing all the time. So long as you’re able to confront reality, so long as you are able to learn, the technology itself actually doesn’t matter. Since then, NVIDIA has been inventing all kinds of technology."
"We approach everything with the same attitude. If it’s important to do, we’re going to go learn it. How hard can it be? It always turns out to be much, much harder than we expect. But you go into it with the attitude, how hard can it be?”