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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was asked who the smartest person he'd ever met was.
His answer was fascinating.
That person might have scored terribly on the SAT.
For decades, we treated programming as one of the ultimate signs of intelligence. Then AI came along, and coding became one of the first things it learned to do exceptionally well.
Huang believes we're about to redefine what being smart actually means.
The truly brilliant people aren't necessarily the ones who can solve the hardest equations.
They're the ones who notice what nobody says in a meeting. Who combine technical knowledge with empathy, experience, and instinct.
They see a problem developing long before anyone else realizes there's a problem at all.
And they know how to stop it.
That's a completely different kind of intelligence.
You can memorize every formula, ace every exam, and still miss what's happening right in front of you.
The smartest person in the room might not have the highest IQ or the best academic record.
They might simply understand the world, and the people in it, better than everyone else.
Nvidia CEO'su Jensen Huang'a, 'hayatında tanıdığınız en zeki kişi kim' sorusuna cevabı:
- Tanıdığım en zeki insan üniversite giriş sınavından berbat bir puan bile almış olabilir.
- Herkes yazılım programlamanın nihai akıllı meslek olduğunu düşünüyordu.
- Yapay zekanın çözdüğü ilk şey ne oldu? Yazılım programlama.
- Zeki tanımı çoğu insanın düşündüğünden çok farklı.
- Gerçek zeka: Teknik yetenek + İnsan empatisi + Söylenmeyeni anlama becerisi
- Köşelerin ötesini görebilen insanlar gerçekten, gerçekten akıllıdır.
- Sorunları ortaya çıkmadan önce önleyebilmek - sadece havayı hissettiğin için.
- O hava: Veri + Analiz + İlk prensipler + Yaşam deneyimi + Bilgelik + Diğer insanları hissetmek
- İşte bu zekadır.
- Geleceğin zeki tanımı bu olacak.
Ve o kişi SAT'den berbat bir puan alabilir.
Terence Tao just exposed an ugly side of the AI race that nobody wants to talk about.
OpenAI floods mathematics with 300+ papers. Tao, a Fields Medal winner and one of the greatest mathematicians alive, has only managed to examine about 10. Some papers have already been withdrawn after errors were discovered.
Think about that.
AI can produce mathematical proofs faster than even the brightest human minds can verify them.
And young mathematicians are paying the price. Problems that once helped students develop their research skills are being consumed at industrial scale.
Meanwhile, universities are left sorting through an avalanche of work they never asked for.
Tao isn't anti-AI. He's actively embraced tools like Lean for mathematical verification.
What he's questioning is an incentive system that rewards the number of problems solved while ignoring whether anyone actually understands the results.
And this goes far beyond mathematics.
The same problem is coming for software engineering, scientific research, and every industry adopting AI.
You can generate 1,000 answers in minutes.
But who takes responsibility for proving they're right?
That's the part nobody seems eager to automate.
Terence Tao warns that the race to AGI is becoming toxic, and OpenAI’s massive paper dump wiped out junior research projects overnight.
Some parts of his most recent interview:
“They were willing to toss understanding to the side so that they could prove more theorems, get more press releases [...] and test their latest toys.
These AIs are depleting our pool of questions and not replenishing them with anything new.
only looked at about 10 of the 300 odd papers. I mean, so this is part of the thing. There's just so many to look at.
[...] There's a whole bunch which are still incomprehensible. And no one's really gone through them, and one or two even have some errors and [were] retracted.
So we don't have a clear picture of what's going on. And no one from OpenAI is helping us. As far as they're concerned, they're done.
[...] We have this pile of stuff to go through which we didn't ask for, but we have it anyway. And there will be some good stuff in there and some rubbish, but we don't know what the percentages are yet.”
🚨 Alexandr Wang just raised a terrifying possibility about the AI race between the US and China.
What if the next major conflict begins with an entire power grid going dark?
Wang warns that China is already far ahead in data, and that advantage could become devastating if translated into military and cyber capabilities.
Imagine AI powerful enough to cripple critical infrastructure, compromise national defenses, and give a country the confidence to move against its neighbors.
No missiles needed to cause chaos.
That's why Wang is calling for a US strategy built around data dominance.
America can't afford to discover how far it has fallen behind when the lights are already out.
Alexandr Wang: If you look at data, China is actually way ahead of the United States.
“The United States needs a strategy for data dominance.”
“One thing I’m really concerned about is if China races ahead on AI.”
“If they apply AI to their military and cyber operations more effectively than we do, we’re in for a really bad time.”
“They’ll be able to hack into our systems and shut off our energy grid.”
“They may use an incredible AI advantage to start conquering nearby countries.”
Tesla just unveiled a Roadster that looks like it belongs in a SpaceX launch facility.
And the numbers are absolutely insane. 🤯
🚀 0–60 mph in just 0.81 seconds
🔥 Rocket thrusters and an actual flight demonstration
⚡ A fan system capable of up to 2G of suction
🏎️ A top-speed ambition beyond Mach 0.5
📅 Production planned for 2028
Elon Musk wants this to be both the ultimate human-driven car and the world's first truly great flying car.
The full reveal is worth watching.
Key moments:
3:15 — First flight demonstration
6:02 — The insane 2G fan system
7:52 — Rocket thrusters in action
8:52 — The Tony Hawk-approved kickflip
13:50 — Sub-1-second acceleration target
16:22 — 0–60 mph in 0.81 seconds
18:26 — Mach 0.5+ ambition
19:04 — Production timeline
We've spent a century making cars faster.
Elon wants to make the road optional.
Here’s the full Tesla Roadster unveiling event.
0:15 – Crazy Tesla + SpaceX collab preview
2:25 – Last manually driven Tesla car
2:53 – Taking it way past the limits
3:15 – Countdown & first flight works
5:38 – Flying cars are real
5:41 – Peter Thiel flying cars quote
6:02 – Fan suction system (up to 2G)
6:16 – Downforce & crushing track records
7:08 – Starman appearance
7:52 – Rocket thrusters & full gymnastics
8:52 – Kickflip demo (Tony Hawk approved)
9:32 – Real road car + rocket car future
9:56 – Air tanks, nozzles & specs
10:14 – Rechargeable ultra-high pressure air
10:36 – Car reveal & aerospace design
12:50 – Fan modes
13:37 – Variable pitch rear wing
13:50 – 0-60 goal under 1 second
14:21 – Acceleration demo
16:22 – 0.81s 0-60 achieved
16:26 – Production car will be even quicker
17:05 – World’s quickest production car
17:28 – Top speed & Snake River Canyon teaser
18:26 – Mach 0.5+ goal
18:52 – First best flying car + last best driver’s car
19:04 – Production starts 2028
🚨 HUGE WIN FOR X! 🇺🇸
Over 13,000 accounts just got wiped out.
X says its security team uncovered coordinated influence networks linked to Iran, Russia, and China, using fake accounts to manipulate political conversations ahead of the U.S. midterms.
Think about that. Thousands of fake voices trying to pass themselves off as genuine public opinion.
Americans should be able to debate politics without foreign influence operations secretly pulling the strings.
Massive respect to @elonmusk and the @X safety team.
This is exactly the kind of action that makes X worth defending. 🔥
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Elon Musk's X just took down more than 13,000 accounts tied to foreign influence operations from IRAN, RUSSIA, and CHINA that were targeting U.S. politics ahead of the midterms
THANK YOU, X! 🇺🇸
The networks used fake accounts to post and amplify content about U.S. politics, going after candidates
X says its Safety team found them through proactive sweeps and investigations
This is why X is the best platform in history.
Jensen Huang in Taiwan is something else. 🤯
One moment, he's surrounded by thousands of engineers at Computex. The next, he's exploring night markets, enjoying local food, and sharing stories you rarely hear from NVIDIA's CEO.
What fascinated me most was hearing @JensenHuang talk about getting nervous before a keynote.
Even the man at the center of the AI revolution feels the pressure.
This incredible trip offers a rare look at Jensen beyond the stage, from his childhood memories and Taiwan's semiconductor history to GPUs, AI, and the competition ahead.
Some highlights worth watching:
9:12 — Keynote preparation and nerves
13:03 — Taiwan's technology history
19:47 — Raohe Night Market
29:37 — Jensen's childhood memories
43:09 — GPUs, AI, and competition
55:07 — Ningxia Night Market
The technology is fascinating, but seeing the human side of the man building NVIDIA makes this special. ❤️
I've been traveling the world a bit. One of the most incredible experiences was getting to visit Taiwan w/ @JensenHuang. It was wild 🤯.. huge crowds of engineers, insanely good street food at night markets, and of course a lot of good conversations across many days. I caught some of it on video, see below. Alright, that's it from me, love you all ❤️
Timestamps:
0:00 - Highlights
0:46 - Intro
3:25 - Computex: crowds, engineers, tech, future of AI
9:12 - Chat with Jensen: keynote prep & nerves
13:03 - Chat with Jensen: Taiwan's tech history
19:47 - Raohe night market
29:37 - Chat with Jensen: memories from childhood
33:44 - NVIDIA party
40:29 - Lunch: braised pig's feet
43:09 - Chat with Jensen: GPUs, AI, and competition
55:07 - Ningxia night market
1:10:14 - Taiwanese breakfast
1:29:54 - Outro
One of the most important partnerships in tech history started with a phone number in the Yellow Pages.
Jensen Huang was running a tiny startup called NVIDIA when he tried to reach TSMC founder Morris Chang.
He called repeatedly. Nobody called back.
So he wrote Chang a letter.
Then one evening, around 6 PM, the phone rang.
It was Morris Chang himself.
Jensen's employees were outside his office playing video games and making so much noise that he had to yell:
"QUIET! IT'S MORRIS CHANG!"
He was ecstatic. Not because a famous CEO had called him, but because NVIDIA might actually survive.
Chang invited him to Taiwan.
That relationship would go on to help reshape the entire semiconductor industry.
Think about that.
The man who built NVIDIA was once a struggling founder desperately trying to get someone to return his calls.
Never underestimate what one conversation can change.
Jensen reveals he first met the Founder of TSMC by cold calling their number off Yellow Pages
"I heard about this company in Taiwan, TSMC and UMC at the time. They were of course quite poor companies themselves, and they were barely making it."
"TSMC was probably about $300 million, something like that. It's a tiny little company. I heard about Morris Chang. And so I tried to call their US office."
"Back in the old days there were yellow pages. I looked it up, TSMC. There's a number there. I called their number and it's a recording. I left my name and my number and said a few things about NVIDIA: we're a new startup company building computer graphics chips. I called several times. Nobody called me back."
"And so I finally wrote a letter to Morris Chang. Didn't hear anything for a long time, and then one day it was 6 o'clock or something, this person called and said 'this is Morris Chang from TSMC.'"
"And meanwhile, everybody outside my office was playing video games and they're all laughing and screaming. 'Hey shut up! It's Morris!' I was so happy that the founder would actually call us back, because hey, maybe we won't have to die."
"And so we talked and he invited me to Taiwan. I came back to Taiwan, and that was the start of everything. Not just that partnership, but just the whole industry."
musk:I don't want to build another Amazon.
I want to build something so good that people forget to open Amazon.
Who's crazy enough to try this with me? 🤔
Nine fishermen were trapped on a sinking boat in the remote Bering Sea.
Winds were hitting 58 mph. Waves were reaching 10 feet. And the nearest fishing vessel couldn't safely get close enough to rescue them.
But they had something that made a huge difference: @Starlink.
The Arctic Sea had run aground near St. George Island, Alaska, and was taking on water.
Another fishing vessel, the North Sea, stayed connected through Starlink and kept the U.S. Coast Guard updated as the emergency unfolded.
Eventually, a Coast Guard helicopter reached the scene and rescued all nine fishermen.
Every single one survived.
Think about that.
In one of the most remote and unforgiving environments on Earth, a satellite internet connection helped keep a rescue operation coordinated when the weather made a direct rescue by boat impossible.
People often talk about Starlink in terms of internet speeds, subscriptions, and competition with telecom companies.
But out there in the Bering Sea, none of that mattered.
Nine people needed help, and the rescuers needed reliable communication.
This is exactly why I believe Starlink deserves to be available everywhere, especially in places where traditional networks can't reach.
Huge respect to the Coast Guard and everyone involved in bringing those nine fishermen home. 🚀
When @Starlink helped rescuers save nine fishermen from a flooding boat in Alaska.
The United States Coast Guard confirmed that all nine people aboard the Arctic Sea were rescued.
Their fishing boat had run aground near St. George Island in Alaska’s remote Bering Sea and was taking on water. Winds around 93 km/h and three-metre waves made it too dangerous for a nearby fishing boat, North Sea, to rescue the crew directly.
North Sea used Starlink to stay connected throughout the response. Its crew also provided updates to the Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter lifted all nine fishermen to safety.
Starlink helped keep communications working during an emergency where nine lives were at risk.
This life-saving technology should be available in every part of the world.
Elon Musk wants to turn Mars into a gas station for the entire solar system.
And the engineering behind this idea is absolutely fascinating.
About 78% of Starship's propellant mass is oxygen. The other 22% is fuel.
Both can be produced on Mars.
That changes everything.
Imagine a spacecraft that lands without parachutes, doesn't discard hardware, refuels using resources from another planet, and takes off again.
That's what Starship is being designed to do.
Once you establish propellant depots on Mars, the possibilities get wild.
The asteroid belt. Jupiter's moons. Saturn. Eventually, destinations throughout the solar system.
Musk even mentioned Venus, although he admitted it's basically hell and nobody would want to go there. 😂
What I find incredible is how far ahead Elon is thinking.
Most people are still wondering whether humans can even reach Mars.
He's already thinking about how Mars could become the infrastructure that takes humanity everywhere else.
That's an insane level of ambition.
And I absolutely love it. 🚀
Elon Musk says Starship’s fuel is mostly oxygen and easy to make on Mars, so a propellant depot there turns it into a generalized transport to anywhere in the solar system
“Yes, and actually it’s mostly going to be an oxygen plant, but it’s because it’s 78% oxygen, 22% fuel. But the fuel is a simple fuel that is easy to create on Mars and many other parts of the solar system."
"So basically, and it’s all propulsive landing, no parachutes, nothing thrown away, it has a heat shield that’s capable of entering on Earth or Mars."
"We could even potentially go to Venus, but you don’t want to go there. Venus is hell, almost literally."
"But you could, it’s a generalized method of transport to anywhere in the solar system because the point at which you have a propellant depot on Mars, you can then travel to the asteroid belt and to the moons of Jupiter and then to Saturn and ultimately anywhere in the solar system.”
Imagine being 22 years old, getting offered $250 million, and thinking, "What would I even do with that money?"
That's basically how Mark Zuckerberg responded when Yahoo offered $1 billion to buy Facebook in 2006.
Peter Thiel and another investor on Facebook's three-person board were seriously considering the deal.
Zuckerberg wanted to reject it in ten minutes.
When they reminded him that he'd personally walk away with $250 million, his reasoning was ridiculously simple:
He'd probably use the money to start another social network.
But he already had Facebook. Why sell it just to build another one?
The meeting lasted eight hours. Zuckerberg refused to budge.
Peter Thiel later called it the single most important decision in Facebook's history.
Facebook eventually became a trillion-dollar company.
What fascinates me is how differently everyone saw the same opportunity.
The investors saw a billion-dollar exit.
Zuckerberg saw eight hours of people trying to convince him to give up the company he actually wanted to build.
I admire that level of conviction.
But $250 million at 22? I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't have been tempted.
Would you have sold?
Peter Thiel has one Facebook story he always tells. Mark Zuckerberg turned down $1 billion at 22, and his reason fit in one sentence.
Yahoo made the offer when Facebook was two years old.
The board was three people: Zuckerberg, Thiel and one other venture investor. They met on a Monday morning to decide.
The two investors leaned toward selling. A billion dollars was a lot of money.
Zuckerberg opened by saying this was a formality. They would talk for 10 minutes and turn it down.
The investors pushed back. You're 22. You'll get $250 million. There's a lot you could do with that.
Zuckerberg's answer:
"I don't actually know what I would do with the money. I'd probably just start another social networking company. But I already have one, so why would I sell it?"
The 10-minute meeting lasted about 8 hours. Facebook didn't sell.
Thiel calls it the single most important decision in the history of the company. Today it's worth over $1 trillion.
Would you have taken $250 million at 22?
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Somewhere out there, a kid might watch tomorrow's Tesla Roadster reveal and decide to become an engineer.
That's the kind of moment I want to see.
I still remember the magic of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone. For a few minutes, the future felt like something you could actually hold in your hands.
Elon Musk is bringing that feeling back.
Think about it.
In 2017, Tesla showed a Roadster promising 0–60 mph in just 1.9 seconds.
Then Elon started talking about sub-one-second acceleration, SpaceX technology, and possibly making the damn thing fly.
And somehow, he says acceleration is the LEAST interesting part.
Dude. WHAT are you building?! 🤯
I don't want another car with impressive numbers. I want to see something so outrageous that even the engineers watching have to pick their jaws up off the floor.
We've gotten way too comfortable being cynical about everything.
I miss being genuinely amazed by technology.
Tomorrow, I want that feeling again.
Elon and the Tesla team, give us something we'll still be talking about 20 years from now. 🚀
Jensen Huang once admitted that when NVIDIA unveiled its first AI supercomputer, nobody wanted it. Not a single purchase order.
Except for Elon Musk.
"He goes, 'You know what? I have a company that could really use this.'"
But then came the twist: it was a nonprofit😂😂 The machine cost $300,000, and Jensen thought the odds of getting paid were "approximately zero." He delivered it anyway, driving it to San Francisco himself in 2016 to a room full of researchers who turned out to be OpenAI.
Elon saw the value of AI computing when the whole world couldn't understand it. He's done it again and again, spotting the future years before everyone else, then backing it with action instead of words.
Somewhere out there, a kid might watch tomorrow's Tesla Roadster reveal and decide to become an engineer.
That's the kind of moment I want to see.
I still remember the magic of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone. For a few minutes, the future felt like something you could actually hold in your hands.
Elon Musk is bringing that feeling back.
Think about it.
In 2017, Tesla showed a Roadster promising 0–60 mph in just 1.9 seconds.
Then Elon started talking about sub-one-second acceleration, SpaceX technology, and possibly making the damn thing fly.
And somehow, he says acceleration is the LEAST interesting part.
Dude. WHAT are you building?! 🤯
I don't want another car with impressive numbers. I want to see something so outrageous that even the engineers watching have to pick their jaws up off the floor.
We've gotten way too comfortable being cynical about everything.
I miss being genuinely amazed by technology.
Tomorrow, I want that feeling again.
Elon and the Tesla team, give us something we'll still be talking about 20 years from now. 🚀
Jensen Huang once admitted that when NVIDIA unveiled its first AI supercomputer, nobody wanted it. Not a single purchase order.
Except for Elon Musk.
"He goes, 'You know what? I have a company that could really use this.'"
But then came the twist: it was a nonprofit😂😂 The machine cost $300,000, and Jensen thought the odds of getting paid were "approximately zero." He delivered it anyway, driving it to San Francisco himself in 2016 to a room full of researchers who turned out to be OpenAI.
Elon saw the value of AI computing when the whole world couldn't understand it. He's done it again and again, spotting the future years before everyone else, then backing it with action instead of words.
Somewhere out there, a kid might watch tomorrow's Tesla Roadster reveal and decide to become an engineer.
That's the kind of moment I want to see.
I still remember the magic of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone. For a few minutes, the future felt like something you could actually hold in your hands.
Elon Musk is bringing that feeling back.
Think about it.
In 2017, Tesla showed a Roadster promising 0–60 mph in just 1.9 seconds.
Then Elon started talking about sub-one-second acceleration, SpaceX technology, and possibly making the damn thing fly.
And somehow, he says acceleration is the LEAST interesting part.
Dude. WHAT are you building?! 🤯
I don't want another car with impressive numbers. I want to see something so outrageous that even the engineers watching have to pick their jaws up off the floor.
We've gotten way too comfortable being cynical about everything.
I miss being genuinely amazed by technology.
Tomorrow, I want that feeling again.
Elon and the Tesla team, give us something we'll still be talking about 20 years from now. 🚀
The only other person who’s ever made me this excited about a product unveil was Steve Jobs. Watching him introduce the first iPhone is a huge part of why I fell in love with technology.
Elon brings that feeling back for me, but honestly, I think he takes it to a whole different level. Tomorrow, he and the Tesla team are unveiling the next-gen Roadster, and I seriously cannot wait.
The Roadster they showed in 2017 already promised 0–60 mph in 1.9 seconds. Since then, Elon has talked about a Tesla–SpaceX collaboration, having it fly, and getting that time below ONE second, and calling it “the least interesting part” of the car.
How do you say something like that and expect me NOT to be excited?!
But beyond how fast it goes, I want to see something that makes me sit there and say, “Wow… how in the world did they build that?” I honestly don’t know what they’re going to show us, and that’s part of what makes this so much fun. I really want to be surprised and see the unthinkable.
These days I feel many older people don’t get that excited about things… I only see that spark in kids. But imo, we should still get excited about people building cool things. We should still root for the nerds, engineers, and designers trying to do something that has never been done before.
And I hope there’s a kid watching tomorrow who feels what I felt watching Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone. Someone who sees this car and starts wondering how it works, sketching their own ideas, or thinking about what they could build someday.
I hope y’all are ready to have your minds blown.
I’m rooting for you, Elon, and the entire Tesla team behind this car.
Go give us a night we’ll never forget!
Before Jensen Huang became one of the richest men in the world, eating out meant sitting at a plastic table in a Taiwanese night market.
His family couldn't afford fancy restaurants.
When he was about five, he accidentally got his face cut by a cook's knife. His father rushed him to the hospital.
You'd think that experience would have scared him away forever.
Instead, Jensen still talks about those night markets with incredible affection.
What stayed with him wasn't just the food. It was the people.
Vendors working exhausting hours, earning almost nothing, yet willing to give away what little profit they made simply to be kind.
"That's the Taiwanese way."
I love that.
A man who helped build a trillion-dollar empire still remembers the generosity of people who barely had a dollar to spare.
Jensen reveals where his childhood love of night markets comes from
"My mom and dad loved it. We would come to the night market. When we go out to dinner, that's the definition of going out to dinner. You don't go to a restaurant. We didn't have money like that. We'd just go to the night market and sit at these tables."
"I was looking for a restroom so I wandered off. I walked up to this guy, this cook. I was about to ask him if there was a restroom somewhere. He was cleaning his knife, and my face was right next to his knife. It cut me right across my face. I was almost five. My dad picked me up and ran me to the hospital."
"I always loved the night market after that. I always had a fond memory. The food was so good. I loved the place."
"I loved everything. I loved all the people. Everybody's working hard for a living. They're working so hard, and they still want to share a little something with you."
"They don't have much money. Their profit margin must be a dime each. They gave me all their profit, just to be kind. It's the Taiwanese way."
The tragedy isn't just that Elon Musk was attacked for proposing peace in 2022.
It's that years later, the world is discussing similar terms, after hundreds of thousands more casualties.
In his 2023 conversation with Lex Fridman, Elon raised a devastating question: How many young Ukrainians and Russians have to die for a front line that barely moves?
He understood something his critics refused to confront.
Every year spent delaying peace has a human cost. And no agreement, however successful, can bring those lives back.
You can hate Elon Musk. You can disagree with his proposals.
But attacking someone for wanting to stop the killing doesn't save a single life.
He was right to raise the alarm then. And that warning matters just as much today.
Elon said it years ago, and he proposed a truce that would have likely ended the war before the massive loss of life
He knew that this war was always far more likely to end in negotiation than in some fantasy of total victory
He wanted to stop the war before people were sent into a meat grinder to die
He could already see where this was going:
More death. More destruction. More cities turned into rubble
More young men fed into a war machine with no serious plan for peace
"There are a lot of sons not coming back to their parents"
While politicians, media propagandists, and career warmongers were busy performing morality for the cameras, Elon was doing something much rarer:
He was thinking about how to stop the killing. He warned them not to "send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches," noting that whoever went on the offensive would "lose massive numbers of people. And history will not look kindly upon them"
Everyone at school thinks he's perfect.
But a private investigator is about to uncover the side of him nobody was supposed to see. 👀
🎬 SHAME | EP01
American high school mini-drama.
The school's golden boy has something to hide.
Try getting your first 1,000 users. Then tell me 450 million users aren't worth much because the app barely makes any money.
That's what people were missing when Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014.
Larry Ellison understood it. Traditional companies spend fortunes acquiring customers one by one. WhatsApp already had 450 million people using it every month. Even Google wanted in.
By 2025, that number had grown to roughly 3.1 billion.
You can copy an app's features. You can't simply copy the network of people who use it, the relationships they've built, or the habits they've formed.
$19 billion sounded crazy.
But imagine trying to build that network from zero today.
Larry Ellison: “When WhatsApp sold for $19B, a lot of us were shocked… until we thought about it”
Back in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg paid $19 billion for WhatsApp and its 450 million monthly users.
A few months after the deal closed, the Oracle founder explained what Silicon Valley had missed at first:
“A lot of us [in Silicon Valley] were shocked — until we thought about it and understood the value of having access to that many consumers,”
His point: think about what traditional businesses, cable companies for example, spend to win each customer.
“This is not the place to debate how much you can get through WhatsApp — $1 per year per customer is not going to do it — but I believe there will be opportunity to sell these same customers other things as they join your ecosystem.”
And he added:
“There was quite a battle between Facebook and Google over that property. It wasn’t that one guy did something really silly with a lot of money. Mark Zuckerberg won an auction over Google and paid a high price but got a very valuable asset in the 21st century.”
By 2025, WhatsApp had roughly 3.1 billion monthly users worldwide.
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Jensen Huang just described one of the most fascinating feedback loops in the AI industry.
NVIDIA is using AI to design the chips that will power the next generation of AI.
Think about that for a second.
While NVIDIA's engineers sleep, AI explores chip designs that human teams would never have enough time to investigate.
The result? Faster chips, lower power consumption, and better performance.
And it doesn't stop at hardware. AI is already helping NVIDIA write software, catch bugs, and track down problems that would otherwise take engineers hours to solve.
Huang says the company has reached a point where it can no longer develop its chips or software without AI.
His ultimate ambition is even bigger:
“I want to turn NVIDIA into one giant AI.”
That's an extraordinary vision.
Better AI helps build better chips. Better chips make even more powerful AI possible.
And the cycle keeps accelerating.
NVIDIA isn't just supplying the infrastructure for the AI revolution.
It's becoming one of its most aggressive users.
Jensen Huang: We can’t design a chip anymore without AI.
“At night, our AIs are exploring design spaces vast and wide that we would never do ourselves.”
“Our chips are so much better because of AI. We can reduce energy use and get higher performance.”
“Our software, we can’t write software without AI anymore.”
“We use AI to find bugs, figure out what’s wrong with the code, and who’s likely involved.”
“I want every organization and company to use AI very aggressively.”
“I want to turn NVIDIA into one giant AI.”
Elon Musk once told his wife, “If you were my employee, I’d fire you.”
She wasn't his employee. She was the mother of five of his sons.
But there's another detail about their marriage that I find even more revealing.
Justine Musk later discovered that Elon had been willing to gamble his entire fortune on a rocket, even if failure meant moving the family into her parents' basement.
She didn't hear that from her husband. She read about it.
Her response was priceless: Had he ever actually seen her parents' basement?
We love stories about founders who risk everything. The bigger the gamble, the greater the legend.
But there's something we rarely ask:
Did everyone who stood to lose everything actually agree to the bet?
You can admire what Elon has built without pretending that being a visionary automatically makes someone a good husband.
Nobody should have to read the news to discover what their spouse has decided to risk on their behalf.
Elon Musk told his first wife: if you were my employee, I would fire you. She was the mother of his 5 sons.
Justine Wilson was 18 when she met him at college in Canada. He was 19.
He would call her with classical music playing in the background and ask her out. She’d say no. He’d call again. No again.
Once she finally agreed to ice cream, then didn’t show up. He found her on campus, holding two chocolate chip cones melting down his hands.
They ended up sharing a Bay Area apartment with three roommates and a dachshund that was never house trained.
Then came Zip2. Then PayPal. When PayPal sold, Elon’s net worth went past $100 million.
At their wedding dance he whispered: I am the alpha in this relationship.
She later wrote that he said the employee line just as often. She described herself as a trophy wife who sucked at it.
They had five sons. Twins, then triplets.
In 2008 he filed for divorce. Six weeks later he texted her that he was engaged to a British actress in her early twenties.
Years later she read a profile where Elon told a friend he’d risk his entire fortune for a rocket, even if he, Justine and the kids ended up in her parents’ basement. He never said it to her. On a TEDx stage she joked that she wanted to go back in time and ask him: have you seen my parents’ basement?
Now she appears in Alex Gibney’s new 4-hour documentary Musk. She says she learned the term gaslighting through her relationship with Elon.
At the end of that TEDx talk she said visionaries might make lousy husbands, but they bring light to the dark.
Can you build something world-changing and still be a good husband?
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