NVIDIA started with wrong tech, learned from three textbooks – Jensen Huang at YC Startup School 2026

NVIDIA began with a wrong algorithm, then bought three textbooks at Fry's to correct its course, leading to most major computing breakthroughs. At YC Startup School 2026, Garry Tan sat down with Jensen Huang to discuss confronting reality, learning into new domains, and why resilience matters most. Topics included NVIDIA's early wrong move, the Sega story, $300M IPO, seeing AlexNet differently, reinventing the stack, systems thinking, AI agents, and the ChatGPT moment for robots.

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