Jensen Huang says he wouldn’t start Nvidia again if he knew the pain ahead

• Jensen Huang said Nvidia’s rise came with years of humiliation and near-collapse.
• Nvidia’s CEO said he wouldn’t found the company again, knowing the pain involved.
• Huang said surviving Nvidia’s darkest years required “forgetting yesterday.”

“I missed a lot,” he said, praising his wife for “taking care of everything.”

Still, Huang said Nvidia’s success came from staying committed to ideas others dismissed, especially the belief that graphics chips could someday power a new era of computing beyond video games.

“I think a lot of people forget that the pain and suffering necessary, the endurance necessary to do something great,” Huang said. “It is because you’re always looking forward and forgetting the past.”