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.
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?
Okay, but why doesn't AMD have a CUDA equivalent in quality? Luck?
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
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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.
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.