Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-ceo-says-suffering-wasnt-worth-it-18445094.php
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.
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. "
Title is a bit rough. He’s just saying he lost 30 years of his life to work.
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.
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.
I’ll play a sad song on the smallest violin. Many people lose their entire lives to shitty jobs, he is out of touch.
Truth. A shitton of people work multiple jobs for 30 years or a lifetime and don’t have $3,000 in the bank.
Hey, same here …checks bank account for $35B … still nope
EVERYONE loses 30 years to “work”. So?? Give me 35 billion I’ll co.pain too I guess.
Millions work much more for much less. Such ungratefulness, he could had stopped years ago, not many have that luxury.
Yeah but now he’s worth 35 billion. He could set a million dollars on fire everyday for the next 50 years and still have another million to spend that day. Life doesn’t get much more meaningful than that. /s
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).
Capitalist problems. I bet he won’t give any money away though
I mean, I agree, I’m not going to be losing any sleep worrying about the unsatisfied billionaires. But what he’s saying is that given the cost (losing 30 years of his life) the ‘reward’ ($35 billion) wasn’t enough. He’s not saying he doesn’t like or want the money, he’s saying its not enough to give up your life for.
If anything, it would explain why rich people keep pursuing money long after any sane person would be content with their millions/billions. Maybe if you just get given a few million you could be satisfied with it, but if you’ve had to sacrifice your life, friends, morality and so on to get it… And you realise it doesn’t actually make you happy, so you keep chasing more, hoping that eventually enough will be enough. Better that than realising you’re an idiot who fell for capitalism’s big lie and gave up the stuff that actually mattered in life to get more numbers on a sheet.
Well said. I always wonder why billionaires keep working. Your post explains it nicely.
The cynical side of me would say that he says this to have less competition in the future.
But my empathetic side, which is much larger, agrees with you.
There is one easy way to fix that, maybe 2 ways
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.
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.
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.
Sad evga sounds. I still await their partnership with AMD. It would be a shame to let all that knowledge and talent fade away.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
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 1 year ago
Billionaires aren’t people.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hear they’re edible, I have some sweet baby Ray’s ready.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 year 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 incredible life