The Nvidia CEO said the country’s ability to draw researchers, entrepreneurs and builders from around the world is one of its main strengths, helping it create new companies and technologies. Jensen Huang wants America to continue attracting global talent. Huang discussed immigration on the BG2 podcast, where host Brad Gerstner noted that five of the six people who recently appeared onstage at the White House for the National Medal of Science were born outside the US. Huang was among them and had attended the ceremony with his parents.
“We want all of the world’s great minds to come here, bring their great ideas, you know, make them realize them here,” Huang said during an appearance on the BG2 podcast. “And so we have to do it lawfully; you have to do it rightfully,” he added. Huang said America’s ability to attract researchers, entrepreneurs and builders from other countries remains one of its main strengths, helping it create new businesses, inventions and technologies. America’s “spirit of invention and entrepreneurialism” and its “can-do attitude” help attract people who want to establish companies or pursue research, according to Huang.
However, he acknowledged that immigration requires rules and a balance between different concerns. He contrasted this attitude with places where people may begin by explaining why an idea cannot work.