검색결과 총 15건
-
-
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
-
-
베트남 SHB 증자에 글로벌 자금 몰린다…드래곤캐피털 등 참여
[경제일보] 베트남 상업은행 SHB가 대규모 유상증자에 글로벌 투자기관을 대거 유치하며 자본 확충에 나섰다. 이번 사모 발행에는 드래곤캐피털(Dragon Capital)과 비나캐피털(VinaCapital) 등 주요 투자기관이 참여해 시장의 관심이 집중되고 있다. SHB는 최근 이사회 결의를 통해 사모 방식으로 발행하는 주식의 투자자 명단을 확정했다고 밝혔다. 이번 발행 규모는 2억주로 기존 발행주식의 약 4.35% 수준이다. 은행은 이번 발행을 통해 약 3조3700억동을 조달할 계획이다. 확보한 자금은 기업 운영자금 대출과 고정자산 투자 금융 지원 등 생산 활동을 위한 대출 확대에 활용될 예정이다. 투자자 명단에는 글로벌 자산운용사가 대거 포함됐다. 드래곤캐피털(Dragon Capital) 계열 펀드는 약 3400만주 매입을 신청했다. 이 가운데 대표 펀드인 베트남 엔터프라이즈 인베스트먼트 리미티드(Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited)를 비롯해 삼성 베트남 증권 마스터 투자신탁(Samsung Vietnam Securities Master Investment Trust), 하노이 인베스트먼트 홀딩스(Hanoi Investments Holdings Limited) 등이 참여한다. 한국 자산운용사인 코리아 인베스트먼트 매니지먼트(Korea Investment Management) 계열 펀드도 약 1300만주 매입을 신청했다. 참여 펀드는 KIM 베트남 성장주 펀드(KIM Vietnam Growth Equity Fund), TMAM 베트남 주식 모펀드(TMAM Vietnam Equity Mother Fund), KITMC 월드와이드 베트남 RSP 밸런스드 펀드(KITMC Worldwide Vietnam RSP Balanced Fund), KITMC 월드와이드 차이나 베트남 펀드(KITMC Worldwide China Vietnam Fund) 등이다. 이 밖에도 한화생명 베트남(Hanwha Life Vietnam)은 약 1250만주, 비나캐피털(VinaCapital)은 약 1055만주 매입을 신청했다. 베트남 기관 투자자 가운데서는 PVI 자산운용(PVI Asset Management)이 약 6250만주를 신청해 가장 큰 투자 규모를 기록했다. PVI 인프라 투자펀드(PVI Infrastructure Investment Fund)는 약 2500만주를 매입할 계획이다. 또 FPT 캐피털(FPT Capital)은 약 2996만주, HPP 투자펀드(HPP Investment Fund)는 약 1250만주 매입을 신청했다. 시장에서는 다수의 전문 투자기관이 참여한 점을 긍정적인 신호로 평가하고 있다. 자본 확충을 통해 SHB가 대출 확대와 성장 전략을 추진할 수 있는 기반을 마련했다는 분석이다. 앞서 베트남 중앙은행은 SHB의 자본금 증액 계획을 승인했다. 은행은 약 7조5000억동 규모 자본 확충을 통해 자본금을 약 53조4420억동으로 확대할 계획이다. 이는 베트남 민간 상업은행 가운데 상위권 규모다. 증자 계획에 따르면 SHB는 총 7억5000만주를 발행한다. 이 가운데 2억주는 사모 방식으로 전문 투자자에게 배정한다. 기존 주주 대상 유상증자는 약 4억5940만주이며 임직원 스톡옵션 성격의 ESOP는 약 9060만주다. SHB는 베트남 증시에서 유동성이 높은 은행주 가운데 하나로 VN30지수(VN30 Index) 구성 종목에도 포함돼 있다. 시장에서는 베트남 증시가 향후 선진지수 편입을 추진하는 과정에서 SHB가 FTSE 글로벌 올캡 지수(FTSE Global All Cap Index) 편입 후보로 거론될 가능성도 있다고 보고 있다. 글로벌 지수 편입을 위해서는 시가총액, 유동성, 정보 투명성 등 엄격한 기준을 충족해야 한다. SHB는 국내 자본 확충과 함께 해외 자금 조달도 추진하고 있다. 은행은 최대 10억달러 규모의 국제 자금 조달 협상을 진행 중이다. 이는 장기 성장 전략을 위한 추가 재원 확보 목적이다. 실적도 꾸준히 성장하고 있다. SHB는 2025년 세전이익 약 15조0280억동을 기록해 전년 대비 30% 증가했다. 이는 주주총회에서 제시한 목표의 약 104% 수준이다. 2025년 말 기준 총자산은 약 892조6000억동으로 전년 대비 19% 증가했다. 자산 규모는 1000조동에 가까운 수준까지 확대됐다. SHB는 지난 30여년 동안 자본 안정성, 유동성, 자산 건전성, 수익성 지표를 꾸준히 개선하며 금융 기반을 확대해 왔다. 은행은 앞으로 디지털 금융과 소매 금융 중심 전략을 강화해 경쟁력을 높일 계획이다. 장기적으로는 동남아 지역을 대표하는 디지털 리테일 은행으로 성장한다는 목표를 제시했다.
2026-03-12 17:48:18
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-