By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 05:29:00
Despite leading Nvidia to become the first company ever to hit a $5 trillion valuation, CEO Jensen Huang admits he operates in constant anxiety, working every single day including holidays. His fears may be justified—this week alone, Nvidia lost $250 billion in market value after reports emerged that Meta is in advanced talks to buy billions worth of competing chips from Google, threatening the chipmaker’s decade-long dominance in AI hardware.“The phrase ’30 days from going out of business’—I’ve used for 33 years,” Huang revealed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “The feeling doesn’t change. The sense of vulnerability, the sense of uncertainty, the sense of insecurity—it doesn’t leave you.”
A near-death experience that shaped Huang’s three decades of paranoia
Huang’s anxiety isn’t unfounded paranoia—it’s scar tissue from survival. In the mid-1990s, Nvidia discovered fatal flaws in its first graphics chip while developing technology for Sega’s gaming console. With funds evaporating, Huang flew to Japan for an excruciating conversation: he…
