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Nvidia CEO's urinal story, and Why people hate course creators

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2894, Eric Siu and Neil Patel discuss the humorous yet insightful story about Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huan, the world of course creators, reflections on the pitfalls of fame, and the importance of authenticity in entrepreneurship. Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Check out more of Eric’s content (Leveling UP YT) and Neil’s videos (Neil Patel YT)  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: (00:00) The Urinal CEO: A Story of Intensity (04:11) The Reality of Course Creators (09:50) The Dangers of Fame and Wealth (15:10) That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more!   Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next?  Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.   Connect with Us:    Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel X @ericosiu

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0:00.0

Have you heard of the NVIDIA CEO Urino story?

0:02.6

I have not.

0:03.3

Okay.

0:03.7

So the urinal meme is where one guy's peeing and there's like 20 urinals and then it's

0:09.3

like empty, right?

0:10.4

And then another guy walks in and he goes all the way to stand next to the other guy to pee

0:14.6

next to him and starts talking to him.

0:16.4

Now here's what happened.

0:18.0

There's a guy working at NVIDIA. Literally the same seed. He's like peeing,

0:21.2

minding his own business. And then Jensen Hwang walks in, right? Jensen Hwang walks in and he doesn't

0:26.5

just pee in another random year or no. He goes all the way to stand next to the guy that's peeing

0:30.9

and starts peeing next to him. And then as he's peeing, he stands over and he's like so how's it going and then the other guy's like uh it's going all right

0:39.8

and then jensen's like he side-dise him he's like and then the other guy's like starts panicking

0:45.4

he's like oh well you know he starts telling him everything he does he's like yeah you know i

0:49.3

started selling my products to you know other vendors i'm teaching them i'm educating them how to

0:53.1

use the products blah blah blah and then jensen like looks back at the wall. And he like pulls up,

0:57.8

basically he finishes peeing, like, you know, zips off his pants and all that and just walks

1:01.3

away, right? He's satisfied. So that is the intensity of NVIDIA. Like it doesn't, like,

1:07.7

you want to talk about Elon saying, what did you get done this week, right? With Twitter, it's the same deal with Jensen. That's a level of intensity that I guess he has. I don't know if you need to be a urinal CEO, but that's a great story.

1:20.9

So he's straight up asking his coworker while he's pissing. Yeah. how things are going on, what are you doing?

1:29.2

Yeah. Well, it's just how things are going. And if you answer in a poor way, then he looks

1:32.3

at you all weird, and then you have to tell him basically everything you're doing. And then

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