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Preston Fore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits he criticizes everything his 42,000-plus employees show him: ‘You can’t go a day without some criticism’

Jensen Huang waving (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

With a market cap topping $5 trillion, Nvidia has become the shining star of the artificial intelligence boom—minting enormous wealth for investors and many of its employees. But for the chipmaker’s over 42,000 workers, success comes with high expectations.

According to CEO Jensen Huang, part of Nvidia’s edge stems from a management style he’s described as torturous—one he said he learned, in part, from his Taiwanese parents.

“[To a] Taiwanese parent, nothing is ever good enough, and you can’t go a day without some criticism,” he told Singapore-based news channel CNA.

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