In 1993, Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem sketched out their vision for a chip company at a Denny's diner, which would become Nvidia, a company now close to a 4.7 trillion dollar market capitalisation. Huang, now 63 and still Nvidia's CEO, said at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that "This is absolutely the single greatest time to start a company," adding he was jealous of the opportunity facing young founders. His advice for career risk is to approach new challenges with the question "how hard can it be?" rather than mapping out every obstacle in advance. Huang's optimism is not rooted in the belief that success comes easily; he still works seven days a week and has spoken about running his company in a near constant state of worry. On The Joe Rogan Experience last year, he described a feeling of vulnerability, uncertainty, and insecurity that has stayed with him through 33 years of treating Nvidia as though it were always 30 days from going out of business. His confidence comes less from having answers and more from being willing to find them, recalling early in Nvidia's history when the company backed the wrong graphics technology and he bought three technology textbooks for his