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Jensen Huang - I always think we're 30 days from going out of business.

Jensen Huang - I always think we're 30 days from going out of business.

Jensen Huang


"I always think we're 30 days from going out of business." - Jensen Huang.

"๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ 30์ผ ๋’ค ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ผํ•œ๋‹ค." - ์  ์Šจ ํ™ฉ.


The Constant Urgency of Innovation


Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies specializing in graphics processing units (GPUs) and artificial intelligence. Born in Taiwan in 1963 and raised in Thailand before moving to the United States, Huang earned his electrical engineering degree from Oregon State University and a master's from Stanford. In 1993, he co-founded NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, transforming it from a graphics chip startup into an AI computing powerhouse with a market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion in 2024. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has revolutionized multiple industries, from gaming and visual computing to data centers and autonomous vehicles.


์  ์Šจ ํ™ฉ์€ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ์žฅ์น˜(GPU)์™€ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์„ ์ „๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—… ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„(NVIDIA)์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์ฐฝ์—…์ž์ด์ž CEO์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1963๋…„ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜ ํƒœ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž๋ž€ ํ›„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ•œ ํ™ฉ์€ ์˜ค๋ฆฌ๊ฑด ์ฃผ๋ฆฝ๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ์ „๊ธฐ๊ณตํ•™ ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์Šคํƒ ํฌ๋“œ์—์„œ ์„์‚ฌ ํ•™์œ„๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1993๋…„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ง๋ผ์ฝ”์šฐ์Šคํ‚ค์™€ ์ปคํ‹ฐ์Šค ํ”„๋ฆฌ์— ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์นฉ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์—์„œ 2024๋…„ ์‹œ๊ฐ€์ด์•ก 2์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๋Š” AI ์ปดํ“จํŒ… ๊ฐ•์ž๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ํ•˜์—, ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์ž„๊ณผ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ ์ปดํ“จํŒ…์—์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฐ์—…์„ ํ˜์‹ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jensen Huang


The Mindset of Perpetual Urgency


"I always think we're 30 days from going out of business." This striking statement from Jensen Huang encapsulates the mindset that has driven NVIDIA's remarkable success. Rather than resting on accomplishments, Huang operates with a sense of constant urgency that keeps the company innovative and agile. This perspective isn't rooted in pessimism but in a clear-eyed recognition of how quickly technology markets can shift. In an industry where technological advantages can evaporate overnight, Huang's approach ensures NVIDIA remains vigilant against complacency. This "30 days from failure" mentality has helped the company navigate multiple industry transitions, from gaming graphics to AI acceleration.


"๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ 30์ผ ํ›„์— ํ์—…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ์  ์Šจ ํ™ฉ์˜ ์ด ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„์˜ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ด๋ˆ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ฐ€์ง์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ทจ์— ์•ˆ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ํ™ฉ์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ธด๋ฐ•๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์šด์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์€ ๋น„๊ด€์ฃผ์˜์— ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์ธ์‹์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ด์ ์ด ํ•˜๋ฃป๋ฐค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์‚ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ, ํ™ฉ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ์ž๋งŒ์‹ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์‹ฌ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด "์‹คํŒจ๊นŒ์ง€ 30์ผ" ๋ฉ˜ํƒˆ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒŒ์ž„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์—์„œ AI ๊ฐ€์†์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฐ์—… ์ „ํ™˜์„ ํ—ค์ณ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Learning from Silicon Valley History


Huang's philosophy reflects the hard-learned lessons of Silicon Valley, where once-dominant tech companies have repeatedly fallen from grace. He has studied the cautionary tales of firms like Atari, Sun Microsystems, and Nokia—companies that once seemed invincible before failing to adapt to market shifts. By institutionalizing a sense of vulnerability, Huang prevents NVIDIA from succumbing to the "success syndrome" that has toppled former industry leaders. This approach has proven particularly valuable as NVIDIA has expanded beyond its graphics card roots into artificial intelligence, where the landscape evolves at breakneck speed and yesterday's technological edge quickly becomes tomorrow's obsolescence.


ํ™ฉ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ํ•œ๋•Œ ์ง€๋ฐฐ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฐ๋ฝํ•œ ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜ ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„ํƒ€๋ฆฌ, ์„  ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ฆˆ, ๋…ธํ‚ค์•„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค—์‹œ์žฅ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์ ์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ํ•œ๋•Œ ๋ฌด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์˜€๋˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค—์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์  ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ทจ์•ฝ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ์ œ๋„ํ™”ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ํ™ฉ์€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ์ด์ „ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์„ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋œจ๋ฆฐ "์„ฑ๊ณต ์ฆํ›„๊ตฐ"์— ๊ตด๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์นด๋“œ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ์ด ์ฆ๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ด€์ด ๊ธ‰์†๋„๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด์ œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์šฐ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด์ผ์˜ ๊ตฌ์‹์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jensen Huang


Balancing Urgency with Long-term Vision


What makes Huang's leadership remarkable is his ability to balance this sense of imminent crisis with long-term strategic thinking. While maintaining the "30 days" mentality for operational agility, he simultaneously invests in multi-year technology roadmaps that have positioned NVIDIA at the forefront of AI computing. This dual perspective—urgency in execution paired with patience in vision—has enabled NVIDIA to make bold bets on emerging technologies years before they reach mainstream adoption. Huang's approach demonstrates that anxiety about short-term survival, when properly channeled, can coexist with and even enhance ambitious long-range planning.


ํ™ฉ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์„ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์กฐํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด "30์ผ" ๋ฉ˜ํƒˆ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๋ฅผ AI ์ปดํ“จํŒ…์˜ ์ตœ์ „์„ ์— ์œ„์น˜์‹œํ‚จ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์— ํˆฌ์žํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด์ค‘์  ๊ด€์ —์‹คํ–‰์˜ ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•จ๊ณผ ๋น„์ „์˜ ์ธ๋‚ด์‹ฌ์ด ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋œ—์€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ์‹ ํฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์ฑ„ํƒ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „์— ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฒ ํŒ…์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™ฉ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์  ์ƒ์กด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ์ฑ„๋„๋ง๋  ๋•Œ, ์•ผ์‹ฌ ์ฐฌ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ณ„ํš๊ณผ ๊ณต์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Implementing the 30-Day Mindset in Business


For business leaders across industries, Huang's "30 days from going out of business" philosophy offers valuable guidance. This mindset encourages organizations to maintain startup-like hunger even as they grow, to continuously question assumptions, and to prioritize innovation over comfort. It creates cultures where tough questions are welcomed, where market disruptions are anticipated rather than reacted to, and where teams remain focused on creating customer value rather than defending past successes. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, adopting elements of Huang's perpetual urgency may be essential for sustained relevance, regardless of a company's current market position.


๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ, ํ™ฉ์˜ "ํ์—…๊นŒ์ง€ 30์ผ" ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ์ง€์นจ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ๊ฐ€์ง์€ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์„ฑ์žฅํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ๋„ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ด๋ง์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ •์— ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŽธ์•ˆํ•จ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋„๋ก ์žฅ๋ คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ํ™˜์˜๋ฐ›๊ณ , ์‹œ์žฅ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์ด ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํŒ€์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๋ฐฉ์–ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ธ‰์†ํžˆ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์œ„์น˜์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด, ํ™ฉ์˜ ์˜๊ตฌ์ ์ธ ๊ธด๋ฐ•๊ฐ์˜ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Jensen Huang

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