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 42,000-plus 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 in May. “And I’m kind of the same way. You can’t show me something without me giving you some criticism. And I guess in a lot of ways that’s my form of torture.”
