关于黄仁勋

黄仁勋（Jensen Huang），英伟达（NVIDIA）创始人兼CEO，被誉为“AI教父”。以下内容整理自他2024年在斯坦福大学商学院的访谈及演讲（View From The Top系列活动），他以直率而深刻的风格，分享了关于韧性、第一性原理思维、创业经历与成功的独特见解。

[关于韧性：高期望是低韧性的诅咒]

People with very high expectations have very low resilience.

期望越高的人，韧性往往越低。

And unfortunately, resilience is one of the most important traits of success.

而不幸的是，韧性恰恰是成功最重要的特质之一。

One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.

我的一大优势就是我有着非常低的期望。

I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you.

我不知道如何教给你韧性，除非我祝愿苦难降临到你身上。

I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.

我祝愿你们拥有充足的痛苦与磨难。

Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who have suffered.

伟大并非源于智慧。伟大源于品格。而品格不是由聪明人塑造的，它是由那些经历过苦难的人塑造的。

To this day I use the phrase 'pain and suffering' inside our company with great glee. I mean that in a happy way, because you want to refine the character of your company.

直到今天，我仍然在公司内部非常愉快地使用“痛苦与磨难”这个词。我是以一种快乐的方式说的，因为你想要锤炼公司的品格。

[关于第一性原理思维：从根本上重构问题]

You can learn how something can be done and then go back to first principles and ask yourself, "Given the conditions today, given my motivation, given the instruments, the tools, given how things have changed, how would I redo this? How would I reinvent this whole thing?"

你可以学习某件事是如何完成的，然后回到第一性原理，问自己：“基于今天的条件、基于我的动机、基于现有的工具、基于事物已经发生的变化，我会如何重新做这件事？我会如何彻底改造它？”

I show people how to reason through things all the time. This is how you reason through something that's super ambiguous. This is how you reason through something that's incalculable. This is how you reason through something that seems to be very scary.

我一直在向大家展示如何推理问题。这就是你如何推理极其模糊的事情。这就是你如何推理无法计算的事情。这就是你如何推理看起来非常可怕的事情。

You can't create change by doing what everyone else is doing. You have to go back to first principles and ask: how would you build this today?

你无法通过做别人都在做的事情来创造改变。你必须回到第一性原理，问自己：今天你会如何建造这个东西？

[关于创业：从洗碗工到CEO]

My first job before CEO was a dishwasher, and I did that very well. I was probably Denny's best dishwasher. I planned my work, I was organized, I was mise-en-place, and then I washed the living daylights out of the dishes, and then they promoted me to busboy. I was certain I'm the best busboy Denny's ever had. I never left a station empty-handed. I never came back empty-handed. I was very efficient.

在成为CEO之前，我的第一份工作是洗碗工，而且我做得非常好。我可能是丹尼餐厅最棒的洗碗工。我规划工作，我井井有条，我做足准备，然后我把盘子洗得干干净净，之后他们把我晋升为勤杂工。我确信我是丹尼餐厅有史以来最棒的勤杂工。我从不空手离开工位，也从不空手返回。我效率极高。

The thing I learned is you can make up a great interview. You can even have a bad interview. But you can't run away from your past, so have a good past.

我学到的是，你可以进行一次很棒的面试。你甚至可以进行一次糟糕的面试。但你无法逃离你的过去，所以，请拥有一个好的过去。

VCs don't invest in business plans, because business plans are easy to write. They invest in great people. Your reputation matters, your history matters.

风险投资人投资的不是商业计划书，因为商业计划书很容易写。他们投资的是优秀的人才。你的声誉很重要，你的过往很重要。

[关于愿景与行动：要么奔跑，要么被吃掉]

To realize a vision, you have to run for it. Don't walk. Run.

要实现一个愿景，你必须为之奔跑。不要走。跑起来。

In your long journey, what will you create? Whatever it is, run after it. Don't walk. Run.

在你们漫长的人生旅途中，你们将创造什么？无论是什么，追逐它。不要走。跑起来。

Remember, you're either running for food, or you are running from being food. And oftentimes, you can't tell which. Either way, run.

记住，你要么为了食物而奔跑，要么为了不被当作食物而奔跑。而且很多时候，你分不清是哪种情况。无论哪种，跑。

[关于失败与创新]

Unless you have a tolerance for failure, you will never experiment, and if you don't ever experiment, you will never innovate. If you don't innovate, you don't succeed.

除非你有对失败的容忍度，否则你永远不会去尝试；如果你从不尝试，你就永远不会创新。如果你不创新，你就不会成功。

We realized that not only do you have to create the technology, you have to go create this new market. So, we had to create technology, create markets.

我们意识到，你不仅必须创造技术，还必须去创造这个新市场。所以，我们必须创造技术，创造市场。

The idea that company would create technology, create markets defines NVIDIA today. Almost everything we do, we create technology, we create markets.

“公司创造技术、创造市场”这个理念定义了今天的英伟达。几乎我们所做的每一件事，都是在创造技术、创造市场。

注释：

黄仁勋（Jensen Huang），美籍华人企业家，英伟达公司创始人、总裁兼CEO。在他的带领下，英伟达从一家图形芯片公司成长为全球AI计算领域的领导者，市值突破2万亿美元。他在2024年斯坦福商学院的访谈中提出“痛苦与磨难是成功的关键”这一反直觉观点，强调韧性远比智力更重要。他自己曾在丹尼餐厅做洗碗工和勤杂工，后与朋友在Denny's餐厅构思创立英伟达。其中“你正在跑，要么为了食物，要么为了不被吃掉”以及“高期望是低韧性的诅咒”成为广为流传的金句。