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Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

Jul 26, 2026 · 49:00

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, tells Garry Tan that the company started with the wrong algorithm and saved itself by buying three textbooks from Fry's to learn computer graphics properly. He recounts how a $5 million payment from Sega after revealing the flawed technology kept NVIDIA alive, leading to a $300 million IPO in 1999. Huang explains that seeing AlexNet as a universal function approximator drove NVIDIA to reinvent the entire computing stack for AI, including agents and physical AI. He argues that systems thinking is the new coding, that agents will allow fine-grained control, and that open source platforms like OpenClaw and Hermes enable anyone to build their own AI. For founders, Huang emphasizes resilience—getting through one day at a time—and the attitude of "how hard can it be?" while noting that NVIDIA's physical AI business is already nearly $10 billion.

He Built the World's #1 Open-Source Coding Agent

Jul 24, 2026 · 44:27

Jay V, founder and CEO of Opencode, explains how his open-source coding agent grew from 650,000 to 13 million monthly active users in 2025—a 20x increase—while processing 7 trillion tokens per day and reaching $40 million annualized revenue. Anthropic's attempt to block Opencode users from using Claude Code subscriptions inadvertently fueled the growth by equating the two products in users' minds. Opencode's success hinges on offering choice across 70+ models, including open-source alternatives like DeepSeek and GLM, which are cheaper and faster than frontier models, making coding agents accessible globally—especially in developing countries where a $200/month Claude Code subscription is prohibitively expensive. Jay shares that 12 Fortune 500 companies use Opencode, often discovered via bottom-up adoption. The product's terminal-first design and open positioning were deliberate choices. Jay also recounts his 16-year entrepreneurial journey: the same legal entity (incorporated 2010) applied to Y Combinator nine times before acceptance in 2021, and each prior failure—from a serverless platform to a terminal coffee shop—contributed to the product and market instincts that made…