{"id":38548,"date":"2025-11-14T06:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jensen-huang-says-his-mom-taught-him-english-without-speaking-it-and-her-mindset-still-shapes-how-he-leads\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:31:18","slug":"jensen-huang-says-his-mom-taught-him-english-without-speaking-it-and-her-mindset-still-shapes-how-he-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jensen-huang-says-his-mom-taught-him-english-without-speaking-it-and-her-mindset-still-shapes-how-he-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang says his mom taught him English without speaking it &mdash; and her mindset still shapes how he leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69022a61c007ca8c2737d6b4?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jensen Huang speaks during Nvidia&#039;s GTC conference in Washington\"\/><figcaption>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/p>\n<p>Ann Wang\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jensen Huang credits his mother&#039;s approach to learning for shaping his leadership at Nvidia.<\/li>\n<li>Huang learned English from his mother, who taught him using a dictionary despite not speaking the language.<\/li>\n<li>Tech CEOs like Pavel Durov and Tony Xu also attribute their work ethic to their parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jensen Huang says one of his key leadership lessons came from learning English from his mother.<\/p>\n<p>In a talk with the Cambridge Union released on Wednesday, the Nvidia CEO shared how his mother encouraged him as a child.Her mindset stuck with him, and he said he reminds himself to take the same approach at his company.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My mom taught me English, and she doesn&#039;t speak English,&quot; Huang said. &quot;And that kind of tells you all.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Huang was born in Taiwan, and his family moved to Thailand before he and his older brother were sent to the US when he was nine for a better education. He has previously said that his mother, who spoke Taiwanese Hokkien, began teaching them English to prepare them for the move to the US.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his mother used a &quot;piece of paper and a dictionary&quot; to teach him the language, even though she could not read English.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In a lot of ways that kind of defines Nvidia, kind of defines me,&quot; he said. &quot;I approach almost everything from the perspective of, &#039;How hard can it be?&#039;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Huang cofounded the chipmaking company in 1993 and took it public in 1999. Nvidia reached a $5 trillion valuation last month, driven by the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO is known for fostering open and honest communication and his involved management style, including up to 36 direct reports, Business Insider reported last month.<\/p>\n<p>Huang said things can turn out &quot;to be really hard,&quot; such as being a first-time CEO, raising money for Nvidia, or writing a business plan, which he had never done before.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Staying in the game is in fact most of it,&quot; he said. &quot;I was able to do what I&#039;m doing today because I didn&#039;t get bored and I didn&#039;t get fired. That I think was the magic, all of it. It&#039;s 100% of it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, is another tech founder and CEO who credits his parents for his mindset toward work.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Watching my father work tirelessly on numerous books and scientific papers showed me and my brother the meaning of dedication and inspired us to work hard too,&quot; Durov wrote in a post on X in August, on the 12th anniversary of Telegram&#039;s founding.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Xu, the cofounder and CEO of DoorDash, has also said his immigrant parents, who moved to the US from China, made education a priority.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My mom came to this country, worked three jobs a day for 12 years, one of which was at a local Chinese restaurant. And I got to see that a bit, washing dishes on the side with her,&quot; Xu said in a 2020 interview.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Ann Wang\/Reuters Jensen Huang credits his mother&#039;s approach to learning for shaping his leadership at Nvidia. Huang learned English from his mother, who taught him using a dictionary despite not speaking the language. Tech CEOs like Pavel Durov and Tony Xu also attribute their work ethic to their parents. 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