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Build with Leila Hormozi

How Nvidia Built a $1.7 Trillion Company by Breaking EVERY Rule | Ep 257

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5867 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0

In 1993, NVIDIA had zero revenue.

0:03.4

Today, they are at a $1.7 trillion market cap.

0:07.9

This was not luck.

0:08.8

This is a strategy that no other company has done,

0:11.3

a strategy that you can apply to scale your business.

0:13.9

And so in this video, what I want to do

0:15.3

is I want to share with you the five unconventional methods

0:18.4

that allow Jensen Huang to turn NVIDIA from niche chipmaker into the

0:22.6

most important technology company that exists on this planet. Each method I'm going to break down

0:27.1

is going to build on the one before it. So let's start breaking them down. Most CEOs and founders

0:32.5

operate with a layer of secrecy. They meet with their key executives behind the closed doors and they control everything that their employees do or don't hear. Jensen hates that.

0:41.3

And the reason for that is because I don't really believe there's any information that I operate on

0:46.3

that somehow only one or two people should hear about. These are the challenges of a company,

0:50.3

or this is the problem I'm trying to solve, or this is the direction we're trying to go into.

0:53.3

And so all of this type of information, everybody should be able to hear.

0:56.7

At most companies, decision making is this black box. And at NVIDIA, it's an open book. In fact,

1:02.3

he even gives one-on-one feedback in front of the entire team. I can speak firsthand from my experience

1:07.9

that this is a better way to do things. Now, to the degree that

1:11.8

they show transparency, I think that's based on your preference as a CEO or a founder and your

1:16.6

business that you have as well as the size of it. But what I can say is this, I remember that when

1:20.7

I first had my company gym launch, I had experienced leadership come in and they were selling me. You

1:26.1

don't want to share the PNL. You don't want to

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