Jensen Huang Tells Founders to Embrace AI Opportunity at $4.7 Trillion Nvidia
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Updated · Yahoo Finance · Jul 31
Jensen Huang Tells Founders to Embrace AI Opportunity at $4.7 Trillion Nvidia
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Finance · Jul 31
Summary
At Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026, Jensen Huang called this “the single greatest time” to start a company and urged entrepreneurs to stop overthinking by asking, “How hard can it be?”
Huang said AI-driven technological change has created unusually large openings for startups, arguing founders do not need all the answers at launch if they are willing to learn quickly.
Nvidia’s 63-year-old CEO illustrated that with Nvidia’s early misstep on graphics technology, recalling that after raising money the company bought three textbooks so engineers could teach themselves a new path.
The message lands as Nvidia’s market value has swelled to about $4.7 trillion on AI-chip demand, even as Huang says he still works seven days a week with a constant sense the company could fail.
U.S. entrepreneurs are already moving: 3.23 million business applications were filed in the first half of 2026, up 12.1% year over year, though nearly half of businesses fail within five years.