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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by andruby on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:16AM (#50469800)
> Jensen personally is all but certainly responsible for almost none of the value created

That's a very limited view of value creation. Have you ever lead a team of people? Coached someone? Raised a child? Written a technical architecture?

A lot of people play crucial roles in a company. HR, accounting, leadership, PM's, engineers, support, etc. All of them contribute to the value creation.

If you've ever been in a company with poor leadership and one with great leadership, you'd see the impact of it on everyone working there and on the value being created.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kllrnohj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:27AM (#50469958)
> That's a very limited view of value creation. Have you ever lead a team of people? Coached someone? Raised a child? Written a technical architecture?

Yup, all of it. And at no point have I considered myself as 10,000x more valuable than any of the team members I led. Yet that's exactly what is done to billionaire CEOs.

You'll notice I did not say Jensen didn't create ANY value.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by belg1o on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:50AM (#50470303)
Companies rise and fall based on leadership decisions. You inability to see that highlights your lack of thought needed for true leadership.

Critical / hard decisions are worth more than just a manager telling / trusting his team to execute on x,y,z task.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kllrnohj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:15PM (#50470695)
Sorry, what hard decisions did Jensen make, exactly? "Hey team, I'm going to make the tough decision here to propose that next year's GPU is faster than last years"?

Do you know for sure that Jensen personally was involved in recruiting Ian Buck and starting up the CUDA project? A project that's largely attributed to John Nickolls? What other major decisions did Nvidia even make over the last, say, 15 years?

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by vatsachak on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:50PM (#50471269)
Okay, but why doesn't AMD have a CUDA equivalent in quality? Luck?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kllrnohj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:18PM (#50473582)
AMD was borderline bankrupt? While nvidia was doing CUDA, AMD was selling off assets like their fab business to keep the lights on.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by NetMageSCW on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:40PM (#50472070)
The decision to support CUDA and include it in retail GPUs so that he could create a massive installed base, even in the face of criticism and loss of stock value, for years. Sort of like Tesla building superchargers to cause BEVs to become viable.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by jdgoesmarching on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:01PM (#50470466)
This is hilarious because Jensen’s idea of leadership is petty authoritarianism. I’m not sure if this is just HN being emotionally bought in to great man theory or financially bought in to NVDA, but most of their value creation is on the back of gamer chips being useful for crypto and later AI.

The children yearn for a tyrant I guess.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Phelinofist on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:30PM (#50471901)
> HR, accounting, leadership, PM's, engineers, support, etc. All of them contribute to the value creation

Not sure about HR TBH

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by dennis_jeeves2 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:00PM (#50472409)
>> Jensen personally is all but certainly responsible for almost none of the value created

>That's a very limited view of value creation. Have you ever lead a team of people? Coached someone? Raised a child? Written a technical architecture?

I can assure you that the people you are targeting the question at, have never/rarely done any of the things you asked. I call them the socialists. They sit in judgment of people who do things while they lead their petty lives and all they look forward is the next Superbowl game, or next Netflix series.

(p.s you might like the writings of author by name Ayn Rand, Disclaimer: I'm no worshiper of Rand)