Nvidia’s rise from an idea hatched in a booth at Denny’s to the world’s most valuable company is one of the defining business stories of the AI boom. But according to CEO Jensen Huang, whose net worth now sits at $196 billion, there’s a less glamorous ingredient behind that success: suffering.
“Nobody suffers better than I can,” Huang said in conversation with the Korea Society late last month. “In order to do something incredible, you have to suffer. It’s not a walk in the park. If it’s a walk in the park, anybody could do it.”
