Tae Kim

His preferred medium is the whiteboard:

At Nvidia, the whiteboard is more than the primary form of communication at meetings. It represents both possibility and ephemerality—the belief that a successful idea, no matter how brilliant, must eventually be erased, and a new one must take its place.

whiteboard, signaling that each day and each meeting is a new opportunity, and that innovation is a necessity, not an opt

Nvidia’s reinvention has paid off: on June 18, 2024, the company surpassed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company, at a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion

Nvidia investors enjoyed the highest annualized compound return for any U.S. stock in history through a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 33 perc

the longest tenure of any current technology CEO.

investment in Nvidia became my first big winner.

When we were younger, Tae, we sucked at a lot of things.

e survived ourselves. We were our own worst enemy.”

It retained a core of die-hard employees, many of whom remain in the fold to this day.