Billionaire Jensen Huang's heartfelt message to students

(Dan Tri) - Billionaire Jensen Huang received many invitations to speak at graduation ceremonies at universities to inspire graduating students.

Mr. Jensen Huang (61 years old) is the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia Corporation - the world's largest chip manufacturing corporation with a market value of more than 3,500 billion USD. The Taiwanese-American businessman is currently the 11th richest billionaire in the world with a fortune of about 124 billion USD. Below are some inspirational speeches of Mr. Jensen Huang when meeting students at universities.

Don't be afraid, step into the unknown.

At the graduation ceremony of the California Institute of Technology (USA) students this summer, Mr. Jensen Huang said: "I am one of the most persistent CEOs in the technology industry today. For more than 30 years, I have managed to keep myself working, not getting bored with the job. The secret behind that is perseverance and the ability to adapt to circumstances."

Mr. Jensen Huang is currently the 11th richest billionaire in the world with a fortune of about 124 billion USD (Photo: CNBC).

Mr. Huang affirmed that his and Nvidia's journey to success was not smooth. When he founded the company, he had to face many big competitors. He launched impressive products, attracting the attention of potential customers, but there were times when Nvidia was almost knocked out of the market. At that time, Nvidia could not compete with the big competitors who had been operating in the market for many years. "When I could not penetrate the fields that were dominated by big companies, I decided to explore the market segment... without customers. In new fields that people did not even know about, had no demand and no customers, we would have no competitors there," Mr. Huang said. It was under the pressure of fierce competition and the need to find unexplored market segments that Mr. Huang and his colleagues began researching machine learning algorithms, a field of artificial intelligence. From there, Nvidia took the lead in artificial intelligence research. "My logic is: If we don't start building, nothing will come to us. So I hope you will believe in something, even if it's something unconventional, something that no one has thought of, something that no one has done," Huang told graduates of the California Institute of Technology.

Young people need to live with less ambition and more... sadness.

Billionaire Jensen Huang said he had to endure constant bullying while living and growing up in the US. When he entered adulthood, he also had to go through many difficulties and struggles. He worked many low-income jobs such as bussing tables and washing dishes at restaurants to earn money to cover living expenses during his college years. When he founded Nvidia in 1993, he had to go through very dark times. For example, in 1996, he was forced to lay off 70 out of 110 employees because the company's finances were exhausted.

According to Mr. Huang, low expectations are the psychological advantage to overcome difficulties (Photo: CNBC).

Mr. Huang's life from childhood to adulthood has gone through many sorrows and hardships before he built a great career. Although he had to go through bitter and sad experiences, Mr. Huang is always grateful for those experiences because for him, that is the key to success. "The stature of a person comes from their personality, personality does not necessarily go hand in hand with intelligence. Very intelligent people are not necessarily people with beautiful personalities. But people who have gone through a lot of pain and misery have the ability to form a beautiful personality," Mr. Huang shared in a meeting with Stanford University students (USA) this year. Many successful people often advise young people to dare to dream big, have big ambitions, but Mr. Jensen Huang thinks the opposite. According to him, low expectations are the psychological advantage for an individual to quickly overcome difficulties, obstacles, and even failures to reach success. According to Mr. Huang, young people who start a business with high expectations often lack perseverance, endurance and the ability to bounce back after stumbling and falling. For students at Stanford University (USA), Mr. Huang knows that they are all good students, many of them have impressive backgrounds, so they graduate with confidence, setting very high expectations for their future. However, for Mr. Huang, that is not a good sign, because according to him, high expectations are always an obstacle to patience and perseverance. The billionaire said: "Every time I talk about sadness and misery, I say it with the most positive meaning. So for you students, I wish you will go through sadness and misery to gradually perfect your personality and determination, so that from there, you will achieve great achievements. If you do not have the calmness in the face of failure, you will never have valuable experiments. If you do not have experiments, you will never be able to improve and create breakthroughs. If you cannot create breakthroughs, you will not be able to succeed." Mr. Huang said that when recruiting, he also prioritizes candidates who have experience showing perseverance and determination. According to him, these are important personality traits that contribute to creative breakthroughs and success at work. Mr. Huang values ​​perseverance more than degrees.

Think and act like a child.

In a meeting with students at Oregon State University (USA) in 2009, Mr. Jensen Huang once said: "I hope you will find joy in your work, will love what you do. That is the only way for you to do extraordinary things." Mr. Huang advised students when starting a business to think and act in the mindset of a child. "Keep a pure, unprejudiced mind, always be curious, inquisitive, constantly observing to find new things. Keep faith even when others doubt and laugh at you," Mr. Huang told the students.

When recruiting, Mr. Huang prioritizes choosing candidates who have experience showing perseverance and determination (Photo: CNBC).

When Mr. Huang founded Nvidia, many competitors, analysts, and even his customers expressed doubts about the company's long-term viability. Many predicted that Nvidia would "die young" because it could not compete with the giants who already held a dominant position in the market. However, Mr. Huang believed that there were always untapped areas in the market, which were full of potential. "All traditional thinking and concepts are only certain to be true for what happened in the past, but young entrepreneurs must learn to believe in the future they are imagining. Sometimes, you have to challenge traditional thinking with the naive but confident faith of a child who does not know hesitation, doubt, or wavering," Mr. Huang said. Finally, Mr. Huang advised students about to graduate to know how to seize opportunities as soon as they see them. He said: "Whenever you see an opportunity, you must seize it immediately, you must run immediately after the opportunity that appears. Remember to run, not walk. Do you remember when you were young, when you saw the food you liked, how quickly you ran to where the food was? Run really fast, whatever you want to do, you must act really fast and know how to seize the opportunity."

According to Observer/ Dantri.com.vn

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