Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by Hadriel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:30PM
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That doesn't explain why Jensen is critical to NVDA. It explain why he WAS.
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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by flowerlad on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:33PM
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That's like saying it is OK that Steve Jobs died when he did because the iPhone was already in production by that time.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by thesmtsolver2 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:40PM
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Jensen said we have AGI. Can't AGI do his job?
https://www.reddit.com/r/agi/comments/1s7sgg0/nvidias_jensen...
In this case, Fridman had offered Huang a very unusual metric for AGI: Could AI start and grow a technology business to the point where it was worth $1 billion? Fridman asked if Huang thought AGI by this definition could be achieved within the next five to 20 years.
Huang said he didn’t think that amount of time was necessary. “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI,” he said. He then hedged, noting the company didn’t necessarily have to remain that valuable. “You said a billion,” Huang told Fridman, “and you didn’t say forever.”
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by sailingparrot on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:40PM
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And clearly it was ok from a business PoV?
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by flowerlad on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:43PM
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So you think Jobs had reached the end of his inventive streak?
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by jojobas on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:51PM
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You reckon Apple board shouldn't have voted for his death?
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by ZenoArrow on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:19AM
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You think Jobs invented the products he was selling? He was a salesman, not an engineer.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by matwood on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:36AM
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Jobs was a product visionary. He wasn’t an engineer, and wasn’t just a salesman.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by ZenoArrow on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:54AM
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> Jobs was a product visionary.
I'd like some of what you're smoking. At best I could call him an artist, in the sense that "good artists copy, great artists steal".
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by KerrAvon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:43PM
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have you looked at Apple's stock price and product portfolio since 2011?
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by flowerlad on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:21PM
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You don't think Apple would be worth much more if Jobs was still CEO?
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by bar8uyr on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:26PM
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They seem to be doing fine without him
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by flowerlad on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:54PM
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Yes, but they would do even more fine with him. Since Jobs' passing Apple has released only one successful product category: Watch.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by Iron_Ninja5 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:14PM
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AirPods bring in around $18-22 billion annually
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by bar8uyr on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:06PM
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RIP but yeah he was a bit rapey and didn't really add anything
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by eddythompson80 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:43PM
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Pretty sure his criticality to NVDA is the fact that he founded it and has been its CEO for all of its existence. GPGPUs were entirely his vision. Back in 2008 when no one gave a shit about CUDA or GPGPUs he was the only one insisting that massive data processing on GPUs was going to be important for data centers. He kept funding that for another 15 years despite the target audience being niche scientific computing and the market not rewarding him for that. NVDA without him is going to be a different company. That’s obviously bound to happen sooner or later, but Apple without Steve is a different company than Apple with Steve. Could be better, could be worse, but it’ll surly be different.
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by shepherdjerred on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:22PM
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It is hard to imagine NVIDIA becoming better without him
Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports
by saturn8601 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:13AM
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The conspiracy theorist in me thinks this was a ploy to buy the Chinese more time. They are coming for the GPGPU game with early entrants like Lisuan Tech LX 7G100. They are still a few years behind but you know their tenacity and commitment to getting it done by hook or by crook. A few years of Nvidia stumbling in the woods is all thats standing in the way of China catching up and taking yet another industry away from the west (as if Nuclear, Batteries, Cars, drones weren't enough). The Dems will have an ax to grind and I guess unlucky Jensen is the first victim. If they kill this golden goose man oh man the history books are going to be brutal.