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TIP704: The Nvidia Way w/ Tae Kim

2025/3/7
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Clay Fink: 我对Tae Kim的书《英伟达之道》印象深刻,书中详细阐述了英伟达的成功故事,以及黄仁勋的领导力和公司文化。英伟达自1999年上市以来,股价上涨了惊人的285,000%,其芯片正在推动生成式人工智能革命。 Tae Kim为了解英伟达的成功故事,采访了100多人,包括黄仁勋本人、两位联合创始人、风险投资人以及现任高管和经理。 我非常喜欢这本书,也很高兴邀请Tae Kim来节目。 我特别感兴趣的是英伟达的企业文化以及黄仁勋的管理风格,以及英伟达是如何在竞争激烈的市场中保持领先地位的。 Tae Kim: 我从英伟达成立之初就关注该公司,我的职业生涯始于咨询行业,之后在华尔街工作过一段时间,然后转行进入媒体行业。我从2003年开始研究英伟达,当时市场上还没有关于英伟达的书籍。我通过联系英伟达员工并利用他们的网络来进行研究。 我与黄仁勋的互动中,他展现出非常直接坦率的风格,这有助于避免公司内部的政治游戏。英伟达的会议高效直接,决策迅速执行,与其他公司冗长的会议形成鲜明对比。英伟达提倡信息共享,与其他公司信息保密形成鲜明对比。英伟达的“每周五封邮件”制度,让黄仁勋实时了解公司内部情况。 黄仁勋对成功的强烈渴望是与生俱来的,源于他的竞争精神和对失败的厌恶。他独特的管理风格,直接来自公司高层,他严厉打击办公室政治。 英伟达通过缩短芯片生产周期、开发独特的操作系统以及采用“销售整套产品”策略等方式,在竞争激烈的显卡市场中生存下来。英伟达通过可编程GPU和可编程着色器,发明了GPU市场,并为开发者提供了更大的艺术创作自由。 黄仁勋并非预言家,而是通过谨慎地分配资源,在时机成熟时抓住机遇,从而使英伟达在人工智能领域取得领先地位。他能够预见未来的趋势,并愿意长期投资,最终在人工智能领域取得成功。 2023年5月英伟达的财报发布,数据中心收入远超预期,标志着“大爆炸”时刻的到来,推动了人工智能领域的军备竞赛。 关于DeepSeek的报道存在误导性,其实际成本远高于报道中的数字。DeepSeq模型的效率提升是计算领域持续进步的体现。 英伟达的成功之道包括:极强的职业道德、人才培养和高效的执行力。黄仁勋的长期愿景是将英伟达的加速计算技术应用于更多领域,例如药物研发和机器人技术。他采用非传统的扁平化组织结构,直接管理60多名直接下属,通过频繁的邮件沟通和高效的会议,密切管理英伟达公司。英伟达的企业文化强调速度和效率。 Robert Leonard: 我对英伟达在20世纪90年代克服挑战并发明GPU市场印象深刻,以及黄仁勋如何通过谨慎的资源分配和对时机把握,使英伟达在人工智能领域取得领先地位。英伟达的CUDA生态系统,以及其在网络方面的专业知识,使其在人工智能领域保持领先地位。人工智能领域的持续创新,将继续推动对英伟达GPU的需求。黄仁勋的长期愿景是将英伟达打造成一家万亿美元的公司,他的管理风格和企业文化是英伟达成功的关键。

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This chapter introduces Tae Kim's book, "The NVIDIA Way," and its exploration of NVIDIA's remarkable growth. It highlights NVIDIA's dominance in AI and its unique survival story in a volatile industry.
  • NVIDIA's share price increased by 285,000% since its IPO.
  • NVIDIA is the sole surviving graphics company from the 1990s.
  • Tae Kim interviewed over 100 people for the book, including Jensen Huang.

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On today’s episode, Clay is joined by Tae Kim to discuss his new book, The Nvidia Way, which outlines the making of one of the greatest tech businesses in the world. Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence as its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable.

Since the IPO in 1999, shares of Nvidia are up by 285,000%, which is a compounded return of 37% per year.

Tae Kim is a senior technology writer at Barron’s. To uncover Nvidia’s brilliant story, Tae interviewed more than one hundred people who were involved in their journey, including Jensen himself, his two co-founders, VC investors, and current senior executives and managers.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

06:14 - The unique culture of Nvidia and how they’re able to prevent office politics from creeping in.

15:20 - Jensen’s intense desire to succeed at all costs.

23:06 - How Nvidia became the only graphics chip company from the 1990s that survived.

30:16 - How Nvidia essentially invented the GPU market.

40:49 - Why Nvidia is winning the AI race.

51:47 - How Jensen Huang has prepared Nvidia to dominate the AI revolution.

And so much more!

Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.

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