Brev founder on Jensen Huang's trick to keep NVIDIA feeling like a startup
zeeshanp_ · x · 2026-11-16
Two and a half years after NVIDIA acquired Brev, founder Nader shares a telling exchange with Jensen Huang: told "this is the biggest company I've ever worked for," Huang smiled and replied "Me too."
Key takeaways:
- Organizational layers are necessary for operationalizing work but naturally suppress information flow — people hide problems and bury ideas from other orgs
- Huang's countermeasure: employees are expected to email 1000+ people at once with their "Top 5 Things," forcing information to flow past departmental walls
A rare firsthand look at how NVIDIA's founder keeps a giant behaving like a startup.
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