Jensen Huang: I still wake up feeling Nvidia is '30 days from going out of business'
kevinnbass · x · 2026-11-15
Jensen Huang's remarks on the Joe Rogan show are circulating widely. He says his core drive is fear of failure rather than ambition: "I just want to stay alive, Joe," adding that the drive to avoid failing outweighs the drive to succeed. When Rogan pushed back that success coaches call that the wrong psychology, Huang said it was the first time he'd said it out loud.
Despite Nvidia being one of the biggest companies on Earth, he has used the phrase "30 days from going out of business" every morning for 33 years. The vulnerability, uncertainty and insecurity, he says, "doesn't leave you."
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