Jensen Huang: The tech that founds your company is 'exactly wrong' — learning fast is what matters
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-16
Jensen Huang says the technology a company is founded on usually turns out to be "exactly wrong" — what matters is the ability to confront reality and learn quickly.
He recalls buying three textbooks at Fry's and handing them to NVIDIA's engineers: "Everybody would have thought NVIDIA started out as world leaders in 3D graphics. We learned it from a textbook."
His approach to everything: "If it's important to do, we're going to go learn it. How hard can it be?" It always turns out much harder than expected, but that's the attitude he brings.
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