Lex Fridman

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

sort of be wrong in your own head enough to hear out an opinion of somebody else when it disagrees with you and learn from them, those kinds of things?

Yeah, you have this way about you of when you're explaining stuff, I can feel you actually reasoning on the spot about it with a constant open-mindedness where you could, I could feel like I could steer your thinking.

And that's really beautiful that you've been able to maintain that after so many years of success and pain.

I think sometimes pain makes you close, closes you down a bit.

Yeah.

And I think to maintain tolerance for embarrassment, I think that's the tolerance.

I mean, that's a real thing.