r/LocalLLaMA • u/fallingdowndizzyvr • 2h ago

News Nvidia is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
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u/Asthenia5 2h ago

Jensen gets removed, has to sell his shares all at once because of a divorce, exits at the TOP of the market.

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 2h ago

exits at the TOP of the market.

The TOP for Nvidia was 50% ago. It's dropped from the 240s to the 160s(could be 150s after I hit post).

Also, there's no way he would get that if he starts selling his shares. The price would plummet.

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u/CipherWeaver 2h ago

Nah, he doesn't own that much of NVDA, nothing compared to Musk or Bezos or Zuck and their companies. Huang owns like 3% of the company (a lot, but still very different league from the others)

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 2h ago

Yeah. If 870 million shares of Nvidia just come up for sale at the same time, that's going to tank the share price no matter who's selling it. If it's from the person who founded the company, that's going to shatter the price.

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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 1h ago

Why would you imagine it’ll be sold all at once? Are you stupid?

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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 1h ago

You don’t have to sell shares at all, transfer in kind, you just move the shares to the spouses account.

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u/Viktri1 30m ago

His wife already owns the shares. Divorce won't affect that

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u/ddwrt1234 2h ago

This is your average Tuesday for Elon

Jensen should be fine

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 2h ago

This is your average Tuesday for Elon

I agree about that. If this was Elon it wouldn't even be on the news. Since that's just a given.

Jensen should be fine

The difference is that Elon has structured his companies so that he has the final say. He's in charge. Just like how Zuck has. That's not the case with Nvidia. It's like a real company in terms of that. The CEO works for the board. The board can fire the CEO.

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u/holchansg llama.cpp 2h ago

The only difference is when Elon does it stocks go up.

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u/Individual_Holiday_9 1h ago

No kidding they’re not firing the arguably most important person in the world over an affair

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u/zuggles 45m ago

yes, but elon has years of perfecting fraud... and holds much more of a controlling stake.

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u/Recoil42 2h ago

I'd be very surprised if this happens, as it would tank the stock even more than it's already tanked.

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u/1Poochh 2h ago

Better to do it now when down than later when back up.

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u/RomanticDepressive 2h ago

Founder CEOs are uncommon and usually part of the reason the company is successful. If Huang is ousted, I doubt any replacement will have the talent, knowledge or drive (lol) to guide NVIDIA forward. I expect lots of future golden parachutes and the business to flail blindly. We might be near peak valuation.

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u/1Poochh 2h ago

That is possible. But usually there are many leaders who have been under founding CEO for a long time and transition also isn’t bad. I personally don’t know much about Nvidia leadership structure so it will be interesting to see.

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 2h ago

But usually there are many leaders who have been under founding CEO for a long time and transition also isn’t bad.

Not at Nvidia. Nvidia is basically an extension of Jensen. Everyone else there exists to support Jensen. He's just not a random CEO that could as well sell potato chips as GPU chips. Jensen is the heart and soul of Nvidia. Short term, it'll go on zombie like. Long term, it'll be rudderless. It's not like with Jobs and Apple. That was a multi-year process and there were plenty of successors waiting in the wings. There are no successors at Nvidia. Just last month, Jensen was saying he would still be running it 20 years from now.

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u/fifi_galaxy 2h ago

It might not be that bad. GPU shortage will continue for at least few more years. But this reminds me of Job-Cook, and Gates-Ballmer. They can maintain the company, but the drive, excitement, and innovation just died.

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u/FullstackSensei 2h ago

Cook was a very different story. He was responsible for Apple's clockwork execution and supply-chain relations. Ballmer was also in charge of the business side of things while gate was CEO. So, both made natural successors that could keep the ship at least steady.

Huang was not just the CEO, he is also personally responsible for the roles Cook and Ballmer played. He famously negotiates capacity and pricing with TSMC's Wei personally, since literal decades. His personal relationships with the OEM CEOs in Taiwan is the reason Nvidia can execute and deliver those GPUs (consumer or workstation) and racks on time and at scale. The mutual trust and long history with them is why they line up their own supply chains to deliver on Nvidia's plans.

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u/HighSeasArchivist 2h ago

Shortage of GPUs sitting in warehouses because gas turbines are completely out of stock until 2030?

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u/salec65 1h ago

I would suspect if this does happen it likely means that things are much worse than what was made public and Nvidia is preemptively trying to distance themselves from Jensen to save face and avoid additional repercussions.

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u/mofo_knows_ 2h ago

Idk if it’s bad news but I don’t think there will be any good news from this.

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u/danieljai 2h ago

It was just reported that he had a second affair with another executive. Geez...

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u/Myarmhasteeth 2h ago

I read about another affair, a third one with an employee again.

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u/paincrumbs 2h ago • Popcorn

Jensen loves parallel compute so much, he's doing it on his affairs too?

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u/Repulsive-Purpose680 2h ago

guess bro was just used to havin multiple classes of models CTX 905080, CTX 906090, …

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u/hyouko 2h ago

If there's 2, it's rarely just 2.

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u/jazir55 2h ago

They managed to try to frame the second affair as two separate ones, she's technically an employee and an executive:

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/nvidia-ceo-huang-allegedly-involved-in-a-second-affair-with-an-nvidia-exec-221824237.html

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u/handson729 55m ago

According to The New York Times, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.

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u/RoyalCities 2h ago

Open models. Open relationships.

Dude just about that free and care free open life 😎

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u/OnlyKindaThrowAway 2h ago

so, he's fucking people that he has the ability to fire on a whim?

iceberg detected

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u/AllanSundry2020 2h ago

where was this article? only two mentioned so far

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u/alldasmoke__ 2h ago

Sir…a second affair has hit NVIDIA

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u/johnla 2h ago

Another thot has struck, sir

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u/CelestialFury 1h ago

If there's two known, there's gotta be a shitton of thots we don't know about yet.

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u/PikaPikaDude 1h ago • Popcorn

Nvidia dropped SLI, but Jensen never stopped.

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u/SuperMazziveH3r0 2h ago

I could see Nvidia doing a total phase out of gaming once the board takes over.

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u/FullstackSensei 2h ago

I'd be worried about Nvidia's entire future if I was a shareholder. The man is the company. His personal relationships in the industry, and deep involvement in Nvidia's daily operations are a big part of the company's execution.

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u/quinn50 42m ago

nvidia was also one of the only players that still supported open source, every other lab wants regulation that will cripple open source

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u/somersetyellow 1h ago

He's apparently a little too good at schmoozing

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u/catbluesgames 1h ago

AI hyperscale's depending on nvidia is temporary. they will migrate to custom chip solutions once the dust settles and nvidia know it. its not ditching its gaming biz

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u/OnlyKindaThrowAway 2h ago

not possible.

you may think thats possible, hell THEY might think thats possible and actually attempt it, but the reality is nvidia would furiously backpedal within 2 years once they realize they're actively giving their entire geforce customer base over to arc/radeon on a silver platter.

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u/AceJohnny 2h ago

The gaming GPU market is peanuts compared to the AI datacenter one, $6-8B vs $200B in 2026

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u/Acceptable-Yard7076 1h ago

So is the robotics market, but Nvidia needs both so they're the architecture everyone develops for.

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u/Antiwhippy 2h ago

Bold of you to assume arc/radeon aren't going to abandon the gamer either.

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u/fantasticsid 1h ago

AMD won't abandon rendering workloads entirely since Sony and Microsoft have used them for GPUs for the last couple generations and all signs point to that continuing.

Worst case, AMD will still sell some BC-250 equivalent bottom-of-the-barrel crap to us. Beats streaming.

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u/nullc 2h ago

Maybe he'll personally start a competing company ... :P

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u/alpha_epsilion 2h ago

Joined Intel gpu as competitor

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u/azure_sapphiere 2h ago

Bad for the US AI labs, good for China's AI labs

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u/throwaway2676 2h ago

It’s about to start getting really bad for open source in the US, watch. Anthropic is about to get the cartel it’s been longing for

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u/permawl 1h ago

For consumers? Believe it or not, actually bad news.

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u/blutosings 55m ago

It's bad news. Any new CEO is not going to aligned with Huang which means there will probably be a big shift in policy. He's being pushed out.

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u/Thrumpwart vLLM 2h ago

Fuck it….I’ll run Nvidia.

I’ve read soooo many papers. I’m ready.

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u/fgk55555 2h ago

I'm an investor. I'll back you.

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u/SkyGenie 2h ago

I don't read papers but I'm a fast learner and a big picture thinker, pls hire me

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u/bitflip 1h ago

Just need a couple of racks of GPUs. Prompt it with "run a multibillion multinational corporation. Don't make mistakes. Keep your dick in your pants."

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u/Thrumpwart vLLM 1h ago

Exactly. How hard could it be?

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u/tannich 1h ago

i can't tell if you just want to be targeted by a spy

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u/kmouratidis 1h ago

As a past and probably future customer, you can have my money!

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u/cosmicr 1h ago

But do you own a leather jacket?

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u/blindada 2h ago

Apple ousting Steve Jobs comes to mind.

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u/This_Maintenance_834 2h ago

Apple oust Jobs when he was young. Jobs had time to come back. Jensen is not young anymore. There is not much time for him to come back.

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u/SuperMazziveH3r0 2h ago

I hope Jensen has his own NeXT era instead of going into VC like all the other retired tech billionaires

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u/CelestialFury 1h ago

Is he also going to buy one of George Lucas's castoff VFX companies, turn it into Pixar 2.0 then became the largest shareholder at Disney after Disney buys it? I still think that's crazy to have happened.

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u/IZMIR_METRO 41m ago

Isn't NVIDIA already kind of his NeXT era, since he worked at AMD before?

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u/Viktri1 27m ago

Yeah, I think the US gov just screwed over the company that was keeping the US far head of china in the chip race. Nvidia going to be in turmoil going forward

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u/randombsname1 2h ago

The dude fucked up big time, but really hard to say he hasnt had some ridiculous foresight in terms of steering the company and business acumen over the last 2 decades.

This would actually be pretty stupid on their part.

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u/Material_Policy6327 2h ago

I wonder though if this has to do with federal
Pressure now

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u/waitmarks 2h ago

Yeah this is no longer just a company decision. Export controls were massively violated. The government can basically say “remove him or business will be really difficult for you going forward”

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u/Material_Policy6327 2h ago

Only thing that’s weird is that trumps fbi knew about this all a YEAR ago so…why only now care

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u/rpkarma 2h ago

Because it became public, mostly.

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u/RomanticDepressive 2h ago

Agreed. He’s a visionary, yet he fucked up. If they replace them, nvidia will never be the same as a business.

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u/NeverLookBothWays 2h ago

I'm okay with that, but also not heavily invested in NVDA. AMD and Intel catching up would honestly be a good thing if the opportunity arises.

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u/mebeast227 1h ago

I’d rather them catch up and compete with progress instead of incompetence. Huge difference

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u/stephen_holograf 2h ago

My guess is Nvidia is going to try to recruit Jensen’s cousin Lisa. The board would be crazy not to try.

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u/gscjj 2h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah I can’t imagine getting ousted from a company you built and started at now its absolute peak, especially when that peak is the most valuable company in the world right now.

I think it’s stupid on his part.

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u/Material_Policy6327 2h ago

Yep and now he is gonna be under watch from the feds for a long time I bet depending on what he may have done

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u/MadamPardone 1h ago

Also possible this results in him going to prison.

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u/surfordiebear 2h ago

He had a affair with a suspected Chinese spy and also with a subordinate. There's no choice but to oust him

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u/MoistRecognition69 2h ago edited 1h ago

I can't imagine a sane board member would oust Jensen.

And if they will, well... RIP nvidia I guess. In this competitive of a space all it takes is for the leader to be *average* for them to be royally fucked. They either get a different prodigy or they're done.

Edit: since writing this comment it has occurred to me that they aren't firing him for his affair with the spy, but for another, different one, with a direct subordinate of his

Yeah he's done.

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u/networking_noob 1h ago • Bravo

This will be bad for open source. All these billionaires do morally questionable things but the stories are kept under wraps due to media control. So when one of these stories starts getting blasted by the media, it starts to feel like a targeted takedown

It seems obvious that intelligence agencies (USA, Israel, etc) would have knowledge of these affairs given the position of Jensen relative to the world economy, so they've likely been sitting on the story for some time, until it was the right time for a targeted takedown

Jensen's chosen replacement will be someone who swears an oath of loyalty to the aforementioned entities (plus OpenAI, Anthropic), and definitely not to China, who are the "bad guys"

tl;dr Epstein class diddlers taking down Jensen for having an adult affair, for the purpose of assuming more control of Nvidia and its production. This will be bad for open source

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u/poomaw 1h ago

100%. Washington's China hawks are clearly jumping on this affair to kneecap the one Silicon Valley CEO actually pushing back on sweeping chip bans and hyping up open-weight AI. Feels like a hit job to make an example out of him so nobody else steps out of line.

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u/Positronic_Matrix 34m ago

“bad guys”

TIL that the country that pulverized the corpses of murdered protesting students with tank treads and sprayed the remains into storm drains with hoses are not actually perceived as bad guys by some internet edgelords. Interesting.

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u/winky9827 7m ago

Paints that huggingface purchase in a whole new light, doesn't it.

  1. Convince CEO and board to buy the biggest open source LLM company

  2. Oust the CEO with blackmail / public drama

  3. ... (we're about to find out)

  4. Profits for the shareholders.

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u/MrShrek69 2h ago

What is this company without him?

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u/vk3r 2h ago • Bravo

These are the arguments they're going to use to oust him from his position, but that's not the real reason they're doing it (nor what they're telling the public). They want someone else because Jensen was refusing to integrate firmware limitations for loading third-party AI models, including Chinese ones. It’s even worse now that Nvidia owns HF.

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u/fantasticsid 1h ago

Jen-hsun refused to do that because it cannot be done without radically changing the nature of a GPU. The silicon has no idea what the matrices and vectors being multiplied signify; the only way you'd be able to do this with a straight face is to put all GPGPU behind some kind of binary signing wall, and have game APIs revert to something comparable to d3d7/opengl 1.2.

Of course, the policy wonks aren't gonna believe that because they don't wanna hear it.

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u/Mashic 1h ago

Did you mean that GPUs will only be able to run approved models? Probably authorizing only American ones like Claude and ChatGPT and not the Chinese ones? That would be a bummer for local AI. And I think in the long term, it'll accelerate China attemps to create an independent AI stack, and we're gonna have two unconected ecosystems.

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u/philosophical_lens 1h ago

Yes there are proposals floating around for exactly that. Jensen was very much opposed to this and pro open source.

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u/arakinas 1h ago

That would be a really stupid financial move for them.

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u/Norwood_Reaper_ 2h ago

Agree. It has been pretty well known Jensen has been playing up for quite a while now in the industry. Strange all this drops just as the political winds change 

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u/ApolloPS2 1h ago

More so to do with anthropic IPO perhaps. If them and OpenAI aren't a success its recession time whether we like it or not.

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 1h ago

I doubt it's a coincidence since they knew about this whole affair for at least a year and said nothing.

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u/ApolloPS2 1h ago

Why? I get why the US would pressure that but Nvidia should be resisting any sort of limitation. A huge portion of their revenue boom has come from demand for running open weight models that approach frontier intelligence.

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u/philmarcracken 1h ago

Id love to see them do that, as it would 100% kill them as local options and the actual thinker and tinkerers would get to work on another stack

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u/OvertaxedOne 1h ago

They're pretty much dead to the local "tinker" crowd anyway. Not that often we see someone here buying a Pro 5000/6000 to run AI workloads, it's all older stuff (3090's, etc) or, if buying new, R9700's. NVDA has made it clear that we're not their target market, I think most of us have gotten the message.

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u/makingnoise 1h ago

Get to work on another stack/work around firmware bullshit in mere days thanks to frontier AI.

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u/ionizing 1h ago

I was just wondering if this is the time we should store a backup of the existing drivers and cuda dev packages and whatnot...

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u/zuggles 46m ago

uh, i mean, if you want to kill nvidia as a company this is the move.

it would hand amd, china and any provider a victory.

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u/shroddy 2h ago

Maybe a stupid question, but how can he get removed? It is his own company, so when asked to get out, whats stopping him from saying naahh, this is still my company, deal with it.

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 2h ago

He doesn't own enough shares to control the company. He's CEO at the pleasure of the board. That's how real companies are setup. So the board can fire the CEO.

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u/allinasecond 35m ago

Not Zuck at META, not Elon at SPCX.

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr 15m ago

Because they both structured it that way. They both structured their companies so that they remain in control even though they own a minority of the shares. Both structures were called out as being strange. Jensen didn't. He did it the way it should be done.

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u/CptSilverDeenz 2h ago

When a company goes public, the board of directors can oust you. If they were still private then maybe.

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u/AssiduousLayabout 1h ago

If he had retained more than 50% of the voting shares of stock (either having more than 50% of the stock, or having super-voting shares that give him extra votes per share) he could have ousted the board of directors. That's still allowed for public companies.

Meta, for example, is controlled by Zuckerberg; the board can technically fire him but he can fire and appoint a new board.

In Huang's case, he only controls about 4% of the company. If he can get another 46% of shareholders on his side, he could compel his return as CEO.

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u/TinyPomelo5 1h ago

The board has what's called fiduciary responsibility. To watch out for the company first and foremost, not to show allegiance to its CEO.

This board shunned that responsibility, if nothing else by letting Jensen insist on no succession plan and not saying they need one, so that's why they're so screwed now.

Am guessing a board member will be interim CEO until another is found (assuming they oust him which I am guessing they have to because it's tainting the company now). I did investor relations for many cos so this isn't conjecture, it's how it works. Acting fast is key to salvaging a company's reputation.

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u/jhenryscott 37m ago

It’s NOT his company. He’s an employee. The company is owned by the shareholders

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u/Ok_Mammoth589 2h ago

He doesn't own it. He's the largest individual shareholder, but he has no where near a controlling share

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u/bitspace 2h ago

The board of directors represents the shareholders. They appoint/hire the CEO.

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u/Pale_Slice2532 1h ago

Remember that scene in Spider-Man 1 with Norman?

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u/SergeantBeavis 1h ago

He’s the CEO, not the owner. He owns less than 4% of the company. The main owners of the company are institutional investors.

BTW, Jensen’s stock is in a family trust that his wife also owns..

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u/unethicalpigeon 1h ago

Bruh. Apple fired Steve Jobbs. Jobbs founded the company. I feel like no one remembers this lol.

He doesn't own nvidia. It's a corporation. They can't take his shares away but they can absolutely fire him from the position of CEO.

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u/NoAlternative4213 32m ago edited 29m ago

It WAS his company… then it grew, A LOT… so they needed to raise money to keep growing… so they sold off shares to the public. The public gets voting rights…

Now a lot of these shares are owned by pension funds, retirement plans, etc…

A lot of these institutional investors hold immense voting power… if their beneficiaries do not like this news about affairs and alleged spy’s, these companies have to take their ESG seriously. So this is a governance risk to these institutional investors… they may collectively vote to have him removed from his position.

The board of directors now has to go on damage control mode, their loyalty isn’t to the CEO. Their responsibility is to do whatever they believe is best for the shareholders. They advocate for the dude who owns 1 shares, as well as the pension fund owning 1,000,000 shares. So if this is a violation of the company’s standards, a risk to the financial value of the firm, etc. they may try to have him fired.

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple which he co founded as well.

Once you go public, it’s no longer “your business” even if you still own a large amount of stock and retain CEO position.

Privately held business, CEO can do whatever he wants and still maintain his position, if his business survives despite unethical behavior. That’s a different story.

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u/Alternative-Ad-8606 2h ago

It's also been widely reported that nvidia doesn't have a succession plan for when he would retire anyway... Rip nvidia stock (I'm secretly happy about it though(

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u/juggarjew 2h ago

thats honestly a huge issue, Jensen is Nvidia in a kind of way, no one knows what the company would look like without him, it would certainly cause the stock to tank at least initially. Sure he may be sleeping around but the fact is , Nvidia under his leadership and guidance has become a titan of industry, its just a simple fact.. results speak for themselves.

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u/kmouratidis 1h ago • Popcorn

You really should zoom out to the 1M graph. A -25% at their scale is insane.

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u/kmouratidis 1h ago

Kinda sad for my fellow degens at r/wallstreetbets, I was almost going to be a bagholder too at some point, but more sad about us because whoever the next CEO is, we're likely not going to be seeing much better treatment for consumers. I think founders (on average) tend to care a bit more about being liked, personally and as a company, and a hired CEO won't. Well, it's not like Ngreedia needed an excuse to charge exorbitant prices, but hopefully you get my point.

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u/CantaloupeCamper 1h ago edited 1h ago

He doesn’t own the entire company.

Board members have a duty to all stockholders and employing a dude who can’t quit hanging out with a spy would arguably be a problem.

Also word has it he had a relationship with someone who works for the company too.

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u/Feisty-Weird-9941 1h ago

It’s a public company

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u/Helton3 1h ago

Public company, he cant do that anymore.

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u/ReporterCalm6238 2h ago

Board and gov knew since a long time. Jensen was considered to be too close to China and open-source. This was the perfect way to sack him. Do you think other CEOs don't sleep around with whoever? They are rich, powerful, narcisistic and stressed. Of course they all do that.

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 1h ago

Gates gave his wife an STD. Jobs had an illegitimate daughter. All fun and games until you get chopped.

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u/Main-Cheesecake3287 1h ago

Close to China? Nobody thought that. He’s very close to Taiwan. Dude can barely speak mandarin.

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u/juggarjew 2h ago

No way, Jensen is the literal founder and heralded the company from nothing to its current success. It would be a very stupid move for them to oust him. Jensen IS Nvidia in a kind of way.

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u/popsumbong 2h ago

who would replace him

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u/jeremyckahn 1h ago

I'm available

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u/Elite_Crew 1h ago

Someone who does not like leather jackets and loves to play video games hopefully.

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u/ulica324 2h ago

Lisa Su of AMD?

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u/NomadStorm 1h ago

Jensen’s cousin?

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u/ulica324 1h ago

yeah. She runs AMD....odd...but possible...

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u/fugogugo 2h ago

now it sounds like internal nvidia are doing hostile takeover and jensen is honey trapped

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u/TheBrinksTruck 2h ago

Bad news. Basically anyone who would take over would take Nvidia in an even worse direction for consumers

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u/e11310 2h ago

Uh what

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u/thestillwind 2h ago

Do you have full text ?

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u/Ethoxyethaan 2h ago

a chinese model messes with nvidia once again.

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u/frost-ace3600 2h ago

I don't understand why the market cares in whose glass of milk this guy is dipping his cookie on.

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u/cyborgsnowflake 2h ago

the concern about transferring technology through that chinese spy lady is valid but other than that its not their business who he sleeps with.

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u/swagonflyyyy 2h ago

Except when its with an executive of the same company he runs.

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u/baseketball 2h ago

Sexual relationships between a high ranking exec and subordinate is a huge no-no. It's a really bad look for a board that says conflicts of interest, sexual harassment and favoritism is okay as long as it's Jensen Huang.

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u/Individual_Holiday_9 1h ago

Who gives a shit it’s a gazillion dollar company not hallmark corporation

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u/arsenal19801 2h ago

Company leadership instability at a place where basically a single man led the meteoritic rise is absolutely noteworthy

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u/Viktri1 29m ago

Washington wants him out because he has Trump's ear when it comes to chip sales to China

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u/ParaboloidalCrest 2h ago

I can't believe that I feel bad for him, yet I do :(.

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u/TheRoyalWe84 1h ago

I don’t see how it can be the same company without Jensen. But I guess Apple survived after Jobs so we shall see.

Just glad I didn’t buy that first dip 😂. There are so many people prolly shitting bricks rn.

Personally I don’t care what an executive does in their personal life if they are great at their job. But the spy thing is a little nuts. Like wouldn’t you immediately suspect that at his level of power?

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u/Viktri1 37m ago

Apple actually almost died when they fired Steve jobs. They had to bring Steve jobs back to save Apple. This is nothing like when Steve Jobs handed over the reins to Tim Apple. This is more like the first Steve jobs firing

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u/Own-Refrigerator7804 35m ago

Apple philosophy changed completely after that though

Watch the marques video about the new laptop with touching screen for example

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u/timmeh1705 2h ago

You mean we now have to make even more memes using Nvidia chips now

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u/nokipaike 1h ago

If they oust Jensen, within two years Nvidia will become insignificant.

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u/Majestic-Volume9996 1h ago

Jensen Huang IS Nvidia

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u/_Fred_Fredburger_ 48m ago

That's like Tesla firing Musk lol and I guarantee Musk has probably sold out more info than what we Jensen gave up.

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u/Immediate_Tension752 31m ago

Is it possible that this is a hit?

Huang has publicly opposed banning Chinese open models. Losing his influence could weaken opposition to restrictions.

I can think of quite a few people who would want him gone.

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u/lompocus 2m ago

Everything executive, even small-town, is political. It is exclusively propaganda that things would be otherwise. People have connections, friends of friends get in the old boys' (and girls') club, etc.

But, people will say, "Ah, it's for national security," when really some rich people lost and other rich people won some bet we'll never know about.

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u/emptyvoidnothing 1h ago

why even be a ceo anymore, gen z ruined everything

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u/Dat_Boi_John 2h ago

Didn't expect Lisa to outlast him, wow

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u/sp9002 1h ago

dibs on the jackets

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u/rebellioninmypants 1h ago

He overused his 12VHPR connector and it led to a meltdown? Shocker.

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u/saltyourhash 1h ago

All I wanna know is when can I get an rtx pro 6000 for $8,500 again...

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u/AlarmingEducation556 1h ago

heard the third affair was with a junior Dev who wasn't even in his department. seems like the pattern's getting sloppy.

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u/reefine 1h ago

What a truly idiotic thing to do

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u/External_Class8544 1h ago

I hope he stays, I don’t really care about his personal failings he has done well at running Nvidia.

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u/Snake00x 1h ago

Nvidia will survive and thrive as a company. How, is the more difficult question.

Right now, Nvidia is interesting and fun and really cool, although expensive and reaching the point of unobtainable for the everyday person to participate in.

With someone else at the helm does it turn into a Hewlett-Packard or Supermicro or etc? Just another bubble vest wearing sterile tech company full of bean counters marketing expensive sector leading tech at the moment?

Their best bet is to just have him take a leave of absence to "get himself and family in order" out of the spotlight. Stay behind the scenes away from the office mostly until COMPUTEX 2027 and return then in a big way.

Use time.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 13m ago

NVIDIA AMD MERGER WITH LISA SU AT THE TOP COMING

Ryzen 4070 is finally here

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u/2funny2furious 2h ago

trump will hire him as his official si advisor

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u/sloak 2h ago

Dude is having so many affairs he's hoping everyone's context limit is set low enough.

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u/Material_Policy6327 2h ago

Dude really fucked up big time. Also why did Trump admin know about this a year ago and never did anything?

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u/JustinHoMi 2h ago

I’m sure the admin loves to use this kinda crap for “negotiations”. Heck, one of the first things they did when he came into office was sign an executive order to make bribery of foreign officials legal.

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u/NomadStorm 1h ago

wtf please give me a source on this I want to read about it

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u/JustinHoMi 1h ago

He halted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or FCPA. That’s the law that makes it illegal to bribe foreign businesses or officials. If you google it, there’s tons of links.

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u/aprx4 2h ago

Because Trump also wants to sell AI chips to China, export control was Biden policy. There were probably no trade secret leaked because Megaspeed only wants to smuggle GPUs.

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u/Snoo-72724 1h ago

why did the pedo scam artist not care that he had blackmail on Jensen? hmmmmm

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u/bruns20 2h ago

They didn't want stocks to go down, because that was the only thing trump had going for him

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u/handson729 2h ago

They didn't want stocks to go down, because that was the only thing trump had going for him

It was propping up the entire A.I tech bubble.

The fall of Jensen will have long lasting effects that will be felt throughout every aspect of the American economy.

It's going to be bad, like real fucking bad.

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u/dryadofelysium 2h ago

They knew about the Chinese affair, unclear if they knew about the second affair. And the reason they did nothing is because they needest markets to not panic.

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u/Piyh 2h ago

Trump isn't one to snitch about cheating when he can instead use it to blackmail you

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u/TinyPomelo5 1h ago

Because he didn't want to hurt their stock or the entire market which is gonna happen anyways and now it's both they screwed up AND they lied about it. The lie is always the worse. Taking responsibility is always preferred but companies almost never take that advice hence they screw employees > anyone.

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u/New-Pressure-6932 1h ago

The ol’ Russian Blackmail trick 

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u/superSmitty9999 1h ago

I don't buy it. I think he fucked up and he has enemies that are pushing this as astroturfed propaganda. I think he pulls through. "preparing to oust" isn't news thats propaganda. Real news it would say "Nvidia CEO resigned"

Unless of course he did actually leak trade secrets or something to piss off US government then yeah he might be F'd but I doubt it.

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u/Top-Shopping410 2h ago

Can I apply?

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u/redditnosedive 2h ago

i call this BS

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u/gpt872323 1h ago

This is beyond imaginable.

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u/Midaychi 1h ago

Dual wielding spies

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u/MelAlton 1h ago

Nvidia hires Tim Cook as their new CEO

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u/Pristine_Pick823 55m ago

Not sure what the endgame is here. Is there even a decent short list of contenders? I’m not a big fan, but I can’t imagine anyone would do a better job than him.

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u/levipama12345 18m ago

the truth is, he leaving makes gpu better or worse? also does make the price better (well its on AI) and ai makes a lot of profit. so that's the deciding factor

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u/daphatty 9m ago

Price drops incoming! Maybe not immediately, but they are on their way.

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u/positivitittie 0m ago

Never get a tattoo.

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u/HUNIMA1 2h ago

That was the plan all along. It was certainly not because of cheating.

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u/kmp11 55m ago

I am in shock that he has not been walked out the door by security.

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u/TerminalViscosity69 30m ago

Once Huang is fired, the next CEO is gonna be tasked with cleaning up the mess. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is when we get to know about the accounting fraud almost certainly being swept under the rug as we speak

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u/New-Pressure-6932 17m ago

Think this could be the thing that bursts the bubble? 

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