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Jensen Huang: “Your job is to make a unique contribution”

August 26, 2025

When Stanford MBA students ask his advice, Jensen offers the following:

“Your job is to make a unique contribution, to live a life of purpose, to do something that nobody else in the world would do or can do… so that after you’re done, everybody says the world was better because you were here.”

To do this, Jensen recommends going forward in time and then looking backwards:

“You figure out what is the end result that you’re looking for, and you work backwards to achieve it.”

He gives his experience with NVIDIA as an example:

“I imagine NVIDIA making a unique contribution to advancing the future of computing, which is the single most important instrument of all humanity. No, it’s not about our self-importance, but this is just what we’re good at. And it’s incredibly hard to do. And we believe we can make an absolute unique contribution. It’s taken us 31 years to be here, and we’re still just beginning our journey.”