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Bay Area tech CEO worth $35 billion says ‘suffering’ wasn't worth it::Jensen Huang, a Bay Area CEO worth more than $35 billion, said he wouldn't again go through 'pain and suffering' of being a startup founder at Nvidia.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 104 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Makes sense to reflect on life and understand one has made mistakes. We shouldn't judge people based on prejudice, if he says it was painful for him - it was.

But then the typical billionaire narcissism triggers. Please pity me but only me. I don't see him saying we need to fix the system so no one else suffers the same.

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Billionaires aren't people.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hear they're edible, I have some sweet baby Ray's ready.

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stubb's bourbon sauce or gtfo

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

This guy fucks.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Some of them used to be, that much money actually changes your brain chemistry, the ones born rich never had the chance to be real people(that’s not an excuse for them) and the ones that became rich in life lost their humanity. Fuck em, they could become a regular person again at any point by giving 99% of their money away and still live an enviable life with what remains

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exactly. I’m sure there were regrets and sadness about the time he’s lost to family and friends and being young. But it effectively paid off. If he shared his wealth those people and left tomorrow to make up for lost time it will be a very very net positive life.

But he’s in his current role. Reminding us this billionaire use to be human but we don’t care. Because it’s such an unfathomable amount of wealth for most people he* might as well be fictional.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bay area tech CEO?

Come on, it's the CEO of nvidia! They make it sound like he's smalltime

"I am simply a humble billionaire. In comparison to other billionaires, I'm just a small yacht of about 50 rooms in a sea of mega yachts. We are all the same. "

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Title is a bit rough. He's just saying he lost 30 years of his life to work.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A billion a year is something most people would trade for.

I mean, I'd be done after 1, but hey, that's just me.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don’t get a billion in year 1. You have to grow the business over many years until it starts to pump out cash like that.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True but the moment I got a billion I’d be out

[–] cjsolx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'd be thinking about whether I had enough money to cruise at like the $10m mark. Maybe I'd stick around a bit longer than that, but $1b is entirely too much money.

[–] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll play a sad song on the smallest violin. Many people lose their entire lives to shitty jobs, he is out of touch.

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Truth. A shitton of people work multiple jobs for 30 years or a lifetime and don’t have $3,000 in the bank.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Hey, same here …checks bank account for $35B … still nope

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

EVERYONE loses 30 years to "work". So?? Give me 35 billion I'll co.pain too I guess.

[–] joseangel@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Millions work much more for much less. Such ungratefulness, he could had stopped years ago, not many have that luxury.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah but now he’s worth 35 billion. He could set a million dollars on fire every day for the next 50 years and still have another million to spend that day. Life doesn’t get much more meaningful than that. /s

[–] Rocha@lm.put.tf 3 points 2 years ago

He could set a million dollars on fire every day for the next 50 years and still have another million to spend that day.

Just wanna point out that net worth doesn't equal money in the bank. If he tried to convert his worth (probably NVIDIA stocks) to money it would be very hard and only a percentage of the initial worth (because of shares dumping).

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

There is one easy way to fix that, maybe 2 ways

[–] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Must be real hard to make decisions at Nvidia when you're almost a monopoly and have the power to tell consumers what they are going to pay for products that get comparatively weaker each generation.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being so unpleasant to work with one of their partners decided to just drop the bulk of their revenue so they didn't have to work with them anymore might also make things more difficult.

[–] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Sad evga sounds. I still await their partnership with AMD. It would be a shame to let all that knowledge and talent fade away.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I thought it was about the suffering he caused or something, but it's his "suffering". It doesn't sound like he'll be doing much good with his money. 35 billion, man... that could pay for the education of millions of people.

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

i mean is it hard to just name Jensen, espeically since hes now in the club of CEO of trillion dollar company house which the list is very very short.