Speech
2023 Commencement Address at National Taiwan University
Jensen Huang tells the National Taiwan University class of 2023 three stories of failure and persistence at NVIDIA: abandoning a flawed first chip design, years of investing in CUDA before it paid off, and walking away from the phone market to start something new.
The recording
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Quotes, in order
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To help the Einstein and da Vinci of our time do their life's work.
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Today is the most successful day of your life so far.
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Creating a new computing model is incredibly hard and rarely done in history.
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We risked everything to pursue deep learning.
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Strategic retreat, sacrifice, deciding what to give up is at the core, the very core of success.
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Every industry will be revolutionized, reborn, ready for new ideas, your ideas.
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Remember, either you're running for food or you are running from being food.
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