Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Reportedly Reminds Author Stephen Witt Of Edison: ‘He’s Got An Inventor’s Mindset’

• Witt stated that Huang got a “little stressed out” when Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company for the first time in June 2024.
• President Donald Trump also praised Huang on Wednesday, calling the Nvidia CEO a “smart man.”
• This was after the Nvidia CEO and President Trump met earlier in the day to discuss export controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips.

Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reminds author Stephen Witt of Thomas Alva Edison, given the way he thinks and approaches the creation of new products.

In an interview with CNBC, Witt, who is the author of The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip”, said that Huang is an engineer who has learned how to be a good CEO.

“He’s really an engineer who has repurposed himself to be kind of a world class CEO, just by studying the inputs and outputs of what a world class CEO looks like. But he still thinks like an engineer, he’s got an inventor’s mindset,” Witt said in the interview.

He added that Huang got a “little stressed out” when Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company for the first time in June 2024. “He’s not that comfortable with success,” Witt said.

Nvidia’s shares were up nearly 0.4% in Thursday’s pre-market trade. Retail sentiment on Stocktwits around the company trended in the ‘bearish’ territory at the time of writing.

Trump Praises Huang

President Donald Trump showered praise on Huang on Wednesday, calling the Nvidia CEO a “smart man,” according to a report by Reuters.

This was after the Nvidia CEO and President Trump met earlier in the day to discuss export controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips.

“I’ve said it repeatedly that we support export controls, and that we should ensure that American companies have the best and the most and first,” Huang said, according to a report by CNBC.

The Nvidia CEO added that a federal AI regulation is the “wisest,” while stating that state-by-state regulations would drag the industry to a halt, according to the report.

Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal

Earlier this week, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress revealed at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference that the chip designer had still not signed its $100 billion deal with OpenAI, two months after the announcement, according to a report by Fortune.

“We still haven’t completed a definitive agreement,” said Kress, according to the report.

The company’s 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November stated that “there is no assurance that any investment will be completed on expected terms, if at all.”

NVDA stock is up 34% year-to-date and 28% over the past 12 months.

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