Nvidia's CEO on Entrepreneurship

This is a great (audio-only) talk by Jensen Huang, Co-Founder and CEO of NVidia: Vision Matters.

He talks about the importance of having a big vision when starting a company and shares some fun anecdotes on raising money and setting price points. Some of the stuff he says ("Favoring Moore's Law over Customer Feedback") is diametrically opposed to the currently favored worldview (the Eric Ries / Steve Blank style of customer demand based iteration), which I found refreshing.

"The Future of Email" Talk in Sydney

Yesterday, I gave a talk about my views on the future of email at CSIRO / Macquarie university in Sydney. Thanks to Andrew Lampert for the arranging and promoting the talk. Here's what it was about:

Mail clients haven't moved forward since the mid-1990s. Most applications have added superficial features, but the basics remained unchanged: Folders, lists of disconnected emails sorted by arrival time. Clients have no sense of priority, urgency, workflows, or connectedness. Their search features are simple and are sometimes painfully slow. Users today are bombarded with email and find popular email clients hard to use and inefficient.

How did we get here? How do we get out of it? This talk presents new ideas of improving the email experience for overloaded users.

I promised to put the slides online. Here they are (also on SlideShare).

Gabor Cselle - The Future of Email

I'd also like to thank the audience for the great discussion that ensued after the talk - I might post some of the best questions here at a later date.

A video of the talk is available on the CSIRO website here.

Upcoming Talks: Geneva, Sydney

I've been invited to give two talks while I'm traveling around the world:

• University of Geneva, Switzerland
  Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 5 pm (Unitec Seminars)
  Auditoire du Rez, Bat A, Battelle, 7 rte de Drize, 1227 Carouge (map)


• Macquarie University / CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
  Wednesday, October 15th 2008, 11 am (HAIL Seminars)
  Building E6B, Eastern Road, Macquarie University (map)

In both places, I'll be talking about the Future of Email and how we can improve email clients far beyond where they are today. I'll also chat about my experience with startups in Silicon Valley and what lessons can be learned from here. The talk in Sydney will focus on the former, the one in Geneva will focus on the latter.

I'd love to see you there! I hope both talks will lead to inspiring discussions.

Thanks to Andrew Lampert and Matthias Kuhn for organizing these talks.