MICHAEL AVERY: Nvidia founder’s meteoric rise holds important lessons for SA’s leadership
Jensen Huang highlights the value of having low expectations
09 June 2024 - 15:17
We South Africans are parochial at the best of times, but right now our politics feels dangerously claustrophobic. In fact, it’s telling how little coverage the story of how a man born in Taiwan, who worked as a dishwasher at Denny’s, almost broke the internet because he autographed a woman’s chest last week after the company he helped build became third to exceed the $3-trillion market cap mark.
There are important lessons for us in Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s meteoric rise to the top table of tech that legislators in the seventh administration would do well to heed...
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