#403 How Jensen Works

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Key Takeaways

• There are no shortcuts: The best way to be successful is to take the more difficult route
• Criticize publicly so that the entire organization can learn from a single person’s mistake; the work is more important than how other people perceive you
• Work at the speed of light; work should be contained only by the laws of physics
• Get your point across and make it memorable in four sentences
• Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread
• Strategy is not words; strategy is actions
• Be a learning machine; the good ones know more
• Create the market, not fight over the share of an existing market
• Anytime you make something easier for people to do, the market expands
• Adversity is the best teacher of all

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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

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