'Used to wash dishes, clean toilets': NVIDIA's Jensen Huang's masterclass on what it means to be a CEO

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Chip-making giant Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang believes his role as the CEO is to facilitate an environment where the company's employees can go about their tasks with no obstructions..

In a session titled 'View From The Top' at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Huang said that no task should be beneath anyone in a company's culture...

Huang's value system is built on his life experiences, especially doing various jobs in his younger years."To me, no task is beneath me..

I would like us all to contribute to the company and our position in the company should have something to do with our ability to reason through complicated things, lead other people to achieve greatness, inspire, empower other people, support other people."..

So you should create the conditions by which they could do their life's work, which is my mission," he said.. Nvidia, which Huang founded in 1993, is at forefront of the AI revolution with its graphics processing units (GPUs), which power the most advanced AI applications..