By Yahoo Finance Video
Publication Date: 2025-12-11 15:40:00
00:00 Speaker A
The architects of AI are times 2024-25 person of the year. Time’s feature story kicks off with a person arguably at the epicenter of the AI boom. That, of course, is Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Wong. Luckily for me, I have someone who got to know Jensen extensively for a book that just won the FT’s Business Book of the year. Stephen Witt is the author of the The Thinking Machine, Jensen Wong, Nvidia and the world’s most coveted Microship. Uh Stephen, good to see you here. Congrats on that win.
00:43 Speaker A
I know you poured your heart and soul into this book, so good to see that W on the board.
00:48 Speaker A
So we we have talked to Jensen a lot here, uh Yahoo Finance, but usually he comes on for earnings or if he’s at an event. You really got to spend a lot of personal time with him up close.
01:02 Speaker A
What does he like? And I think a lot would be a lot of people would be surprised to hear, I mean, he has like a a a quick trigger on the temper front.
01:10 Speaker B
Yeah, absolutely. You know, one of his executives told me that interacting with Jensen was like sticking your finger in the electric socket. And and I found that that was true. Jensen is very, very intense. Um he’s he’s very tightly wound. Um he’s really driven to succeed. He’s also like almost totally neurotic. Like I mean, he’s driven by negative emotions, things like fear of failure, guilt, even shame or what made Jen get up…