Sometimes, inexperience can be key to success.
So says Jensen Huang, who co-founded computer chip company Nvidia with fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem from a Denny’s booth in 1993.
“Frankly, I had no idea how to do it, nor did they. None of us knew how to do anything,” Huang recently told “60 Minutes” about the origins of the company.
Today, Huang has been Nvidia’s CEO for more than three decades, and he’s grown the company — through ups and downs — into a $2.2 trillion tech giant that’s helping to power the artificial intelligence boom.
But he was just 30 years old when Nvidia launched. The co-founders had never run a business before, but Huang — a microprocessor designer — believed they could build a graphics processing unit (GPU) that would revolutionize video games and computer graphics, he said.
The 61-year-old billionaire now believes his inexperience likely prevented him from giving up on the company before it became a …