Lex Fridman

I was programming, quote unquote, by talking to my laptop.

And I was embarrassed because I was pretending like I'm talking to a human colleague.

I'm not sure how I feel about the future where everybody is walking around talking to their AI, but it's such an efficient way to get stuff done.

What an incredible future.

I read that you attribute a lot of your success to your ability to work harder than anyone and withstand more suffering than anyone.

So we can list many of the things that entails.

I mean, dealing with failure, the constant engineering problems we've talked about, the human problems, uncertainty, responsibility, exhaustion, embarrassment, the near-death company moments that you've mentioned, but also the pressure.

Now as the CEO of this company that economies and nations pressure,

strategize around, plan their financial allocations around, plan their AI infrastructure around.

How do you deal with this much pressure?

What gives you strength given how many nations and peoples depend on you?

So given all the insane, intense amount of suffering on the journey of building up NVIDIA,

have you hit low points psychologically?

But you basically allow yourself to be pulled by the light of the future.

Forget the past and just keep working towards that.

I mean, you did say there's this kind of famous thing you said that if you knew how hard it would be to build NVIDIA, it turned out to be, what is it, a million times more hard than you anticipated that you wouldn't do it.

But isn't, you know, when I hear that,

That's probably true about everything worth doing, right?

You're now one of the wealthiest people on earth, one of the most successful humans on earth.

Is it harder to be humble and to be able to, do you feel the effect of money and power and fame in making it harder for you to