Jensen Huang says bosses must be demanding: 'If you want to do extraordinary things...'

CEO Jensen Huang's leadership skills leading Nvidia to its success found another admirer in tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg who called him 'Taylor Swift, but for tech'.

Nvidia' Jensen Huang was recently described as a boss who was "not easy to work with" by his employees. But the billionaire CEO seemed unaffected by it. In fact, he welcomed it. He said that the route to doing extraordinary things shouldn't be easy.

In an interview on 60 Minutes, the correspondent Bill Whitaker some of the words employees of the leading software company had used to describe Huang: "Demanding, perfectionist, not easy to work for."

Responding to this, the 61-year-old said those traits fitted him "perfectly."

"It should be like that," he was as quoted saying by the Business Insider. "If you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn't be easy."

His leadership style appears to be working since Nvidia is one of the four companies in the world valued at more than $2 trillion after its stock-market value doubled in just 8 months last year.

Huang is known to handle 50 direct reports at the company to stay updated with what's happening at various levels. He had, earlier this month, said at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that CEOs should, "by definition," have the most direct reports of anyone at a company.

"The more direct reports the CEO has, the less layers are in the company," Huang said.

'Taylor Swift for tech'

Huang's leadership skills leading Nvidia to its success found another admirer in tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg who called him "Taylor Swift, but for tech".

Despite this, however, has said that if he could go back in time, he wouldn’t start the business.

Speaking during a podcast last year, when asked what sort of company he would think about starting if he could go back to being 30 years old, Huang said, "I wouldn’t do it... It’s just too grueling." He added that if people knew how hard it was to build a company from the ground up, "nobody in their right mind would do it".

“Building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder than I expected it to be -- than any of us expected it to be,” Yahoo quoted Jensen Huang as saying. “If we realised the pain and suffering [involved] and just how vulnerable you’re going to feel, the challenges that you’re going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that go wrong--I don’t think anybody would start a company. Nobody in their right mind would do it.”