The career advice Jensen Huang gave me

After quitting his full-time job at Nvidia, Sid Pardeshi co-founded Blitzy in 2023.

Blitzy

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sid Pardeshi, 32, the co-founder and CTO of a generative AI software platform. He is from India and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I thought I'd stay at Nvidia forever.

The pay, learning opportunities, and benefits made it a delight to work there. I had no reason to leave.

But Nvidia's CEO...