Science of Success: The Nvidia CEO’s Lessons in Building a $1T Company

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang is Silicon Valley's longest tenured CEO, and his company recently joined the trillion dollar club. But if he knew at the start what he knows now, would he do it all again? WSJ Science of Success columnist Ben Cohen explains Huang’s approach to success and what that might mean for tomorrow's entrepreneurs. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or e mail us: [email protected] Further reading: He Built a Trillion-Dollar Company. He Wouldn’t Do It Again. Tech’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ Stocks Are Back on Top Markets Analysis: Nvidia Stock Jumps to Record High Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.2	ek slash special offer. Hi future of everything listeners I'm Ben Cohen and I write the
0:29.6	science of success column here at the Wall Street Journal.
0:32.6	We're trying something new and bringing you a new feature based on my column.
0:36.7	Take a listen and let us know what you think.
0:38.7	Drop a line to FOE Podcast at W.S.J.com. When he sat down in a booth at his local dennies and began plotting
0:48.6	out the business that would change his life, Jensen Huang did not know where his startup would be 30 years down the line.
0:56.2	And if he had known, he never would have done it.
0:59.5	It is official.
1:00.6	NVIDIA is the first chip company to hit a one trillion dollar market value.
1:06.2	And video is on fire being over a trillion dollar in market cap now.
1:12.0	The microchip maker briefly entered record-breaking territory.
1:15.4	Only four companies in history have ever passed one trillion dollars in value according
1:19.5	to their stock price. Today, NVIDIA became the fifth.
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