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FoundersOctober 20, 2025

#403 How Jensen Works

About This Episode
This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Jensen Huang—and nothing else. I spent over 40 hours reading (and rereading) this book on Jensen and Nvidia written by Tae Kim I then spent several days editing down 30 pages of notes from the book. I deleted everything that was not How Jensen Works. List of ideas: 1. Professor Jensen 2. The Whiteboard 3. Complacency Kills 4. Insist on a Flat Organization 5. Public Criticism 6. Tortured Into Greatness 7. Speed of Light 8. Extreme In All Things 9. Top 5 Emails 10. Direct Communication 11. LUA 12. The Mission is the Boss and Pilot-in-Command 13. Strategy is Action 14. Ship The Whole Cow 15. Go To School On Everybody 16. Create The Market 17. Choke You With Gold 18. Highest Priority First 19. Swarm Your Greatest Opportunity Episode
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Books Mentioned

The NVIDIA Way cover

The book is a company history and a partial biography of Jensen, covering his life and how he built NVIDIA.

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Creative Selection cover

There's this great book called Creative Selection, which was written by a person that demoed directly to Steve.

ASIN: 039913896X
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The Innovator's Dilemma cover

The Innovator's Dilemma is one of Jensen's favorite books.

ASIN: B0CY78H4Q1
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The Score Takes Care of Itself cover

There's a great line in bill washes book, The score takes care of itself, that I think is very important and related to this.

ASIN: 1596703237
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The Medici Family cover

I found a story in one of the books I read on David Ogilvie where he talks about that the Medici family was trying to persuade this sculptor to move to Florence.

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