Monday, February 3, 2025

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Tae Kim
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Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

In The Nvidia Way, acclaimed tech writer Tae Kim draws on more than one hundred interviews—including Jensen (as he is known) and his cofounders, the two original venture capital investors, early former employees, and current senior executives—to show how Nvidia played the longest of long games, repeatedly creating new markets and outmaneuvering competitors, including the original semiconductor giant, Intel, which now finds itself well behind the upstart. Kim offers revelations at every step, among them:
An authoritative, myth-busting account of Nvidia’s founding in 1993.
How Nvidia managed to overcome early missteps that would have killed most start-ups.
The benefits of Nvidia’s flat organizational structure, which allows even low-level employees to contribute to the direction of the company.
How Jensen’s obsession with solving the Innovator’s Dilemma—the trend of entrenched market leaders falling to smaller, nimbler companies—drove him to reinvent his approach to corporate strategy.
How Nvidia saw the coming AI wave sooner than anyone else, and how it bet its future on a technology that had not yet arrived.

A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

“A captivating history of one of the world’s most important companies and what made it so great. Tae Kim deftly narrates Nvidia’s incredible achievements and instructive failures, and also captures the unique philosophies, motivations, and bets of its founders, scientists, and staffers.”—Matthew Ball, best-selling author of The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet

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解構滋味:香港飲食文學與文化研究論集

蕭欣浩
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★ 文學跨界文化、飲食文學、都市生活的最新研究!

飲食圍繞日常,當中文化最容易被忽略。蕭欣浩博士花十年時間,研究香港飲食文學及文化,探討飲食的相關課題,結集成《解構滋味:香港飲食文學與文化研究論集》。

本書題材從古代的甲骨文、蘇軾的詩文,到上世紀五、六十年代的粵語片、茶餐廳文化,以至香港作家也斯的創作、内地作家蘇童的小說與台灣作家劉克襄的散文,探討飲食於不同時空的文化意義。蕭欣浩博士以學者兼廚師的身分,呈現一道道美食背後,文學、電影與文化構成的人間滋味。

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