Jensen Huang: chipping in to the game of chance
The founder and chief executive of Nvidia believes his penchant for gaming gave him the ability to take risks, try new things and innovate
There have been countless warnings over the years on the negative impact of video games on children’s development, but if Jen-Hsun ‘Jensen’ Huang is anything to go by, we may have less to fear than we initially thought.
The founder and chief executive of Nvidia, a chipmaker that last week briefly hit $1 trillion in market value, credits gaming for teaching him valuable life lessons.
“Maybe it’s because I grew up in the video game era, but I’ve never beaten myself up about mistakes. When I try something and it doesn’t turn out, I go back and try it again,” he told the New York Times in an interview way back in 2010. “Maybe it’s because I grew up in that generation, I have the ability to take chances, which leads to the ability to innovate and try new things.”
