Elon Musk thinks Jensen Huang, the 61-year-old CEO of $3 trillion AI chip manufacturer Nvidia, has “absolutely the right attitude.”
Musk replied to a post on X on Sunday, highlighting a resurfaced clip from Huang’s March interview at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“No task is beneath me,” Huang says in the clip. “Remember, I used to be a dishwasher. I used to clean toilets… that’s life. So you can’t show me a task that’s beneath me.”
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In the clip, Huang answers a question about why he is so engaged with employees and why he designed Nvidia to be a “flat” organization, or one with as little hierarchy as possible.
Absolutely the right attitude.
During the toilet paper shortages of Covid, I was making sure that our factories and offices had toilet paper!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2024
Huang further explains that if an employee reaches out to him and asks for help with something ambiguous or complicated, he will help them reason through it.
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Huang co-founded Nvidia at a Denny’s in San Jose, California, in 1993 at 30 years old. Fifteen years prior, he worked at that same restaurant as a busboy.
Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang. Photographer: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In a May CNBC interview, Huang said it was “the most extraordinary thing, that a normal dishwasher busboy could grow up to be this.”
Nvidia is among the Magnificent Seven, a term that describes Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla for their influence on the market.
As of Monday, Nvidia leads the pack in performance, with a year-to-date return of about 151%.
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