{"id":175890,"date":"2023-11-12T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-his-ai-powerhouse-is-always-in-peril-despite-a-1-1-trillion-market-cap-we-dont-have-to-pretendwe-feel-it"},"modified":"2023-11-12T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:25:28","slug":"nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-his-ai-powerhouse-is-always-in-peril-despite-a-1-1-trillion-market-cap-we-dont-have-to-pretendwe-feel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-his-ai-powerhouse-is-always-in-peril-despite-a-1-1-trillion-market-cap-we-dont-have-to-pretendwe-feel-it","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his AI powerhouse is \u2018always in peril\u2019 despite a $1.1 trillion market cap: \u2018We don\u2019t have to pretend\u2026we feel it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nvidia is on a tear.<\/p>\n

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But \u201cthere are no companies that are assured survival,\u201d Huang warned Thursday at the Harvard Business Review\u2019s Future of Business event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nvidia in its 30-year history has faced several existential threats, which helps explain why Huang recently told<\/a> the Acquired<\/em> podcast that \u201cnobody in their right mind\u201d would start a company. For example, it almost went bankrupt in 1995 after its first chip, the NV1, failed to attract customers. It had to lay off half its employees before the success of its third chip, the RIVA 128, saved it a few years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the benefit of building the company from the ground up and having not-exaggerated circumstances of nearly going out of business a handful of times,\u201d Huang said this week, as Observer<\/em> reported<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to pretend the company is always in peril. The company is<\/em> always in peril, and we feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nvidia is on a tear. But \u201cthere are no companies that are assured survival,\u201d Huang warned Thursday at the Harvard Business Review\u2019s Future of Business event. Nvidia in its 30-year history has faced several existential threats, which helps explain why Huang recently told the Acquired podcast that \u201cnobody in their right mind\u201d would start a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}