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.
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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