I had the chance to read “The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant” by Tae Kim, while doing my research on Nvidia. I believe there's quite a few concepts from Jensen Huang's approach at Nvidia that I found quite interesting.

Here's a few excerpts of the book that I liked the most:

**On using a whiteboard:**

*“At Nvidia, the whiteboard is more than the primary form of communication at meetings. It represents both possibility and ephemerality—the belief that a successful idea, no matter how brilliant, must eventually be erased, and a new one must take its place.”*

*“Whiteboarding also requires active thinking and inevitably reveals how well (or not) any employee, including an executive, knows the material. Employees must demonstrate their thought process in real time, in front of an audience; there’s no hiding behind neatly formatted slides or slick marketing videos.”*

**On working at the speed of light:**

*“Since Nvidia’s founding, Jensen has insisted that all Nvidia employees work at the “Speed of Light.” He wants their work to be constrained only by the laws of physics—not by internal politics or financial concerns. Each project must be broken down into its component tasks, and each task must have a target time-to-completion that assumes no delays, queues, or downtime. This sets the theoretical maximum: the “Speed of Light” that it is physically impossible to exceed.“*

*“There may be people smarter than me, but no one is ever going to work harder than me.”*

**On avoiding complacency:**

*“Jensen runs the company in the way he does because he believes that Nvidia’s worst enemy is not the competition, but itself—more specifically, the complacency that grips any successful company, particularly one with a long and impressive track record such as Nvidia.”*

*“Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery. In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed.”*

If you want to learn more about the book, feel free to read my full blogpost.

What I Learned from Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)