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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23
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GS건설, 한국거래소 '공시우수법인' 선정 外
[경제일보] GS건설이 한국거래소가 발표한 ‘2025년 유가증권시장 공시우수법인’에 선정됐다고 6일 밝혔다. 한국거래소는 매년 상장법인의 공시 실적과 공시 제도 운영 현황 등을 종합 평가해 공시우수법인을 선정하고 있다. ‘2025년도 유가증권시장 공시우수법인’ 시상식은 5일 오후 서울 영등포구 여의도동에 위치한 한국거래소 서울 사옥에서 열렸다. GS건설에서는 공시책임자인 강영주 상무가 참석해 수상했다. 공시우수법인에 선정된 회사는 △5년간 불성실공시법인 지정 유예(1회) △공시담당자 연례교육 이수 면제 △연부과금 및 추가·변경상장수수료 면제(1년) △공시담당자 해외업무연수 등의 혜택이 부여된다. GS건설은 사내 공시 프로세스의 표준화와 사전 공시 점검 체계 강화를 통해 정보의 정확성과 적시성을 향상한 점에서 높은 평가를 받았다. 특히 공시 관련 법규와 유권해석, 주요 사례를 전사적으로 공유하고 실시간 협업 네트워크를 운영해 공시 업무의 전문성과 책임성을 조직 전반에 내재화한 점이 우수사례로 인정됐다. GS건설 관계자는 “이번 선정은 투자자를 위한 신뢰성 높은 공시를 지속적으로 이행해 온 노력을 공식적으로 인정받았다는 점에서 의미가 크다”며 “투명하고 성실한 공시를 통해 투자자의 합리적 의사결정을 지원하는 신뢰 기반을 더욱 공고히 해 나가겠다”고 말했다. 부영그룹, 화순군과 '만원임대주택' 100호 추가 공급 협약 부영그룹은 화순군과 '2026년도 만원임대주택' 신규 100호 공급을 위한 업무협약을 체결했다고 6일 밝혔다. ‘만원임대주택’ 사업은 화순군이 부영아파트를 임차해 청년과 신혼부부에게 월 1만원의 임대료로 재임대하는 주거 지원 정책이다. 부영그룹은 주력 계열사 부영주택을 통해 화순군과 지난 지난 2022년 12월 양해각서 체결을 시작으로 작년까지 300호의 임대주택을 제공한 바 있으며 올해도 100호를 추가로 공급하기로 했다. 부영그룹은 단순히 주택을 제공하는 것에 그치지 않고 내부 보수 및 현장 민원 처리 등에 적극적으로 협조하며 지원을 아끼지 않았다. 이러한 결과 지난 3년간 관외 청년과 신혼부부 134명이 화순군으로 전입하고 입주 후 자녀 21명을 출산하는 등 인구 감소에 따른 지역 소멸 위기를 극복하는 데 긍정적인 성과를 거두고 있다. 현재 부영그룹이 공급하는 만원임대주택은 1차분 23호가 공급 중이다. 이어지는 2차분은 오는 16일 모집공고, 20일~4월 3일 접수, 5월 2일 추첨을 거쳐 7월부터 본격적인 입주가 진행될 예정이다. 호반그룹, 미래 성장동력 확보 박차…스타트업 기술협력 확대 호반그룹은 혁신기술 발굴과 오픈이노베이션 확대를 위한 ‘2026 호반 넥스트 스타트업 공모전’을 개최한다고 6일 밝혔다. 이번 공모전은 호반그룹과 중소벤처기업부, 창업진흥원(KISED), 서울경제진흥원(SBA)과 공동 주최한다. 호반그룹은 지난해부터 스타트업 대상 기술공모전을 상·하반기 각 1회씩 연 2회로 확대해 개최하고 있다. ‘호반 넥스트 스타트업 공모전’을 비롯해 하반기 개최 예정인 ‘호반혁신기술공모전’을 지난 2020년부터 운영이다. 현재까지 총 62개의 수상기업을 지원하고 혁신기술을 개발해 왔다. 이번 공모전 모집 분야는 스마트시티 산업 관련 △건설자동화(건설 로봇, 시공 자동화 등) △디지털인프라(빌딩정보모델링, 디지털트윈 등) △에너지/ESG(탄소 저감, 자원효율화 등)와 자율적인 제안이 가능한 △신사업(AI·로봇·에너지 융합기술 등)으로 구분된다. 호반그룹과 시너지를 낼 수 있는 혁신기술을 보유한 스타트업은 지원 가능하다. 참가를 희망하는 기업은 오는 22일까지 서울창업허브(SBA) ‘스타트업플러스’ 홈페이지(startup-plus.kr)를 통해 접수하면 된다. 공모전은 서류 및 발표 평가를 거쳐 총 4개사를 선정할 예정이다. 수상기업에게는 최대 1억4000만원의 사업화 지원금을 비롯해 사업 현장에 적용 가능한 기술 테스트베드와 입주공간을 제공한다. 수상기업의 글로벌 시장 진출과 네트워킹 및 민간투자 연계 기술창업지원사업(TIPS) 등 다양한 후속 지원 프로그램도 진행될 예정이다. 호반그룹 관계자는 “스마트시티 및 신사업 분야에서 차별화된 기술 경쟁력을 보유한 스타트업들의 많은 관심과 참여를 바란다”며 “수상기업과의 실증과 사업화를 통해 그룹과 스타트업이 함께 성장하는 상생형 오픈이노베이션 모델을 지속 확대해 나가겠다”고 말했다.
2026-03-06 10:40:27
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대웅제약, 이노베어 공모전 5기 모집…'개방형 혁신' 파트너 찾는다
[이코노믹데일리] 대웅제약은 제약·바이오 및 헬스케어 분야 유망 스타트업 발굴과 동반 성장을 위해 ‘이노베어 공모전’ 5기를 모집한다고 9일 밝혔다. 접수 기간은 오는 2월 28일까지다. 올해로 5회째를 맞는 ‘이노베어 공모전’은 대웅제약의 대표적인 오픈 이노베이션 프로그램이다. 독창적인 기술과 아이디어를 보유한 스타트업을 발굴해 창업 지원, 기술 협력, 전략적 투자, 공동개발까지 단계별 사업 연계를 지원한다. 모집 분야는 △합성신약 △AI·플랫폼 기술 △바이오의약품(항체·단백질) △유전자 치료제 △세포치료제 △오가노이드 △약물전달시스템(DDS) △의료기기·헬스케어 △반려동물 헬스케어 등 총 9개다. 대웅의 중장기 연구개발 전략과 시너지를 창출할 수 있는 기술이 폭넓게 포함됐다. 대웅제약은 제시된 수요기술 분야에 부합하는 기업, 대웅제약 또는 대웅그룹사와 협업 이력이 있는 기업, 대전·광주·포항 등 주요 R&D 거점 지역에 소재한 기업을 우대 선발할 계획이다. 이번 공모전에서는 올해 상반기 완공 예정인 대웅 마곡 연구소 우선 입주 기회가 처음으로 제공된다. 또한 민관 합동 스타트업 창업지원 프로그램인 ‘팁스(TIPS, Tech Incubator Program for Startup)’ 및 ‘스케일업 팁스’ 프로그램 연계기회는 물론 다양한 R&D 지원과 후속 과제 우대 등의 혜택을 받을 수 있다. 공모전 모집 트랙은 예비창업 및 법인 설립 지원, 전략적 지분 투자 및 협력, 공동연구, 상업화검증 및 마케팅협력 등 3개 코스로 운영된다. 지원자는 기업의 성장 단계와 니즈에 맞춰 하나의 트랙을 선택해 지원할 수 있다. 예비창업 트랙은 스타트업 지원 프로그램인 팁스 연계를 우선 검토해 초기 자금 확보와 사업화 기반 마련을 지원한다. ‘전략적 지분 투자’ 트랙은 실질적인 투자 기회를 제공하는 프로그램으로 대웅제약과의 협업을 통한 스타트업과의 WIN-WIN 전략을 기반으로 안정적인 성장을 돕는다. 공동개발 트랙은 지분투자와는 별개로 공동연구, 기술 검증(PoC)부터 상용화, 마케팅 협력, 판매 계약까지 전 주기 협업 검토가 가능하다. 실제로 지난해 공동개발 트랙 선정 기업들은 현재 대웅제약과 PoC 연구를 진행하며 사업화 가능성을 구체화하고 있다. 이외에 이노베어 공모전 관련 자세한 내용은 대웅제약 공식 홈페이지와 포스터를 통해 확인할 수 있다. 박성수 대웅제약 대표는 “이노베어 공모전은 단순한 투자 프로그램을 넘어 스타트업과 대웅제약이 함께 성장하는 오픈 이노베이션 생태계를 구축하는 것이 목표”라며 “특히 상반기 완공될 마곡 연구소 인프라와 연계해 파트너사들이 연구개발에 집중할 수 있는 환경을 제공하고 R&D 거점 지역 기업들과의 협력을 통해 미래 헬스케어 혁신을 선도해 나가겠다”고 말했다.
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