Jensen Huang was a busted flush at Nvidia – he had to go | Nils Pratley
Two Nvidia investors with about $2.13 billion of stock disclosed as of June 30 are calling for a deliberate leadership search after Huang’s resignation.
Key points
- CEO was viewed as ‘irreplaceable’, but recklessness of affair with a woman regarded by US officials as a Chinese spy made him a political liability Half the tech world made up its mind before the facts could be assessed properly.
- The chipmaker’s board had to find a way to save its genius for the sake of corporate America and the entire AI universe.
- Nvidia would melt without the co-founder’s brilliance, apparently.
It was always nonsense because, after the passage of only a few days since his confession of infidelity, Huang looked less like a towering corporate titan and more like a political liability.
Jensen Huang was “irreplaceable”, said the chorus at the start of this week.
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