‘Stay, with less’: Why Nvidia’s board may rein in Jensen Huang rather than fire him
Although Nvidia classifies all directors other than Huang as independent, Pozner questioned whether their longstanding relationships and the company’s governance structure could affect their willingness to hold him accountable.
Key points
- Look, I just want to say that if Nvidia CEO and reported spy-plot target Jensen Huang did get help from AI to write an apology email to his family and company about his affair (he’s said he uses AI to help write all of his first drafts), this might be the one use of AI that makes sense to me.
- Now I am worried, based on Jensen Huang’s claim that this was “ completely normal and not unusual ” and an Nvidia spokesperson’s insistence that his interactions with the alleged spy were “ not unusual ” that, actually, we’ll be seeing multiple emails like this.
- I understand that Donald Trump says of Huang that “he dealt with somebody, but you know, so does everybody else,” but—I actually don’t think this situation is that common!
Over time, she said, the structure “had the effect of suppressing the emergence of potential successors, probably diminishing conflict and consolidating power in the hands of Jensen Huang.” Nvidia has not publicly identified a successor.
Additional details
- (To me, though, those feel like two separate emails.) But I do see one problem for someone attempting to delegate the writing of this email: I don’t think this specific email has ever been written before, by anyone.
- “Business/Personal Email Apologizing for Affair/Possible National-Security Breach” is the email equivalent of those wedding dress codes—“Beach Formal”; “Back-of-Your-Closet Country Club”; “Cocktail Business Black Tie”—that are beyond what the human brain can understand.
- My fixation on James Bond and the time I have wasted designing a laser specifically targeted at his groin have distracted us from our mission of blowing up Fort Knox to increase the value of our gold supplies.
- Were there, in fact, multiple emails from people apologizing to their families and employees simultaneously for potentially derailing the world economy over their relationship with a foreign spy that it could study?
- Or if there is a spy trying to infiltrate my marriage to obtain my trade secrets (you will claw my log-in verification codes from my cold, dead hands), that spy is not very good at his or her job.
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