About a year ago I read this book called The Nvidia Way by Tay Kim.
The book is a company history and a partial biography of Jensen.
The episode that I made on the book the first time I read it covered a lot of Jensen's life and then how he built Nvidia.
That was episode 376.
For this episode I reread the book and then I wanted to strip away everything that wasn't ideas for how Jensen runs his company.
So how Jensen works and nothing else.
And so what I did is I made a list of about 20 of Jensen's ideas that I want to run through with you.
So starting with idea number one, which I call Professor Jensen.
So a common trait of history's greatest founders,
they spend a lot of their time teaching their organization.
The best description of this I've ever heard actually comes from Jim Senegal, the founder of Costco.
He says, if you're not spending 90% of your time teaching, you're not doing your job.
The very first sentence of this book is, in another life, Jensen might have been a teacher.
Colleagues call him Professor Jensen for his ability to explain complicated concepts on the whiteboard in a way that just about anyone can understand.
There's another line in this book that comes later on where the author take him says,
Jensen's teaching is both persuasive and pervasive.
They say that you can talk to two unrelated NVIDIA employees who don't know each other and they still will say the same thing.
Jensen has this Vulcan mind meld with everybody inside of his company.
He spends a great deal of his time communicating with his employees and ensures that everyone at the company knows the overall strategy and vision which leads us ties into idea number two which I've already mentioned and that is whiteboard.
Jensen wants the whiteboard to be used as the primary form of communication in meetings.