Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at Y Combinator Startup School 2026 that this is the best time in history to start a company, arguing that young founders should not overthink fast-moving technology or the risk of failure before they begin. Speaking as cited by Fortune, Huang said entrepreneurs do not need to have every answer on day one. What matters, he said, is a willingness to face reality and keep learning.
He pointed to Nvidia’s early years, when the company backed the wrong graphics technology and did not immediately know how to fix the problem. Huang said he bought three technical textbooks for engineers at the time. In his view, the ability to learn matters more than any specific technology itself.
Huang also said success does not come easily. He said he still works seven days a week and has long worried that the company could fail, adding that feelings of fragility, uncertainty and insecurity have never gone away. The report also cited broader U.S. business data: business applications reached a record 3.23 million in the first half of 2026, up 12.1% year over year, while U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed that nearly half of businesses stop operating within five years of being founded.
According to Fortune, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at Y Combinator Startup School 2026 that now is the best time in history to start a company.
Huang said young founders should not overthink because technology is changing quickly or because they fear failure. When facing a challenge, he said, they should first ask themselves: “How hard can it be?”
He said entrepreneurs do not need to have all the answers from day one. What matters is being willing to face reality and keep learning. Huang also said that in Nvidia’s early years, the company once bet on the wrong graphics technology. When he did not know how to solve the problem, he bought three technical textbooks and gave them to engineers.
In Huang’s view, as long as people keep the ability to learn, the specific technology itself is not the most important factor.
He also said success does not come easily. Huang said he still works seven days a week and has long worried that the company could go out of business. He said that sense of fragility, uncertainty and insecurity has never disappeared.
His advice was not to imagine every difficulty in advance, because anxiety can stop people from acting. Instead, he said, founders should let problems arrive one by one and solve them one at a time.
Data cited in the report showed that U.S. business applications reached a record 3.23 million in the first half of 2026, up 12.1% from a year earlier. But startup risk remains high. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that nearly half of businesses stop operating within five years of being founded.
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