Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thewhitetulip on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:26PM (#50478321)

I don't think nvidia will go down. But their RSUs are taking a big hit

Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hn_submit on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:05AM (#50478589)

It has some inertia, but without Huang the company will start to slide into oblivion. The thing they should be most worried about is his tactics for driving up prices and the company's stock price. That could start to haunt (and hurt) them pretty quickly.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by unethical_ban on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:04AM (#50479456)

I'm not sure about that. Granted, I know noting about his day to day impact on the operation of the company. But, assuming he has run a tight ship and he has hired a number of competent people below him, nVidia will stay relevant for a long time. AMD might rise and challenge their dominance on AI compute. However they're on a cash cow one way or the other for a number of years.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by aucisson_masque on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:25AM (#50480121)

Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time.

He didn’t do anything incredible.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by solyin on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:33AM (#50480197)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749

3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control, few people will ever know.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rob74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:52AM (#50482801)

Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by paulryanrogers on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:30AM (#50483216)

Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off.

Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by overfeed on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:55AM (#50478915)

It'd be spicier if it's AMD giving Jensen leadership of its GPU efforts there and automatically hiring anyone at Nvidia who wants to jump ship.

Unfortunately Jensen's 3.8% of $NVDA and/or golden handcuffs won't let him do this; but what I'd give to live in that universe.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by charlieyu1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:04AM (#50479936)

It doesn’t mean going down. A new CEO would likely start a round of layoffs to bring in new personal favourites and no employee would like that

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by amanaplanacanal on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:48AM (#50480882)

> Now I am waiting for Microsoft to enter the drama like they did with OpenAI

Just as soon as they get their systems back up!

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