normative

Do as much as needed, as little as possible

Nvidia's guiding philosophy is to do only the work that wouldn't get done otherwise (building the stack, CUDA, NVLink, domain-specific libraries) wholeheartedly, while doing as little as possible elsewhere—which is why it doesn't become a cloud or hyperscaler, since clouds would exist without Nvidia but its core platform work would not.

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Speaker

Jensen Huang

Evidence Quote

if we didn’t dedicate ourselves to 20 years of CUDA while losing money most of that time—if we didn’t do it, nobody else would have done it.

Source

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast - Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moatDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:37:32 AM

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