CEOs are figureheads and faces that don’t matter that much ultimately. But the damage done by the face of the company compromising it to this degree is immeasurable.
Jensen literally founded the company, and helped design the original GPU. He made some incredibly critical long-term decisions, like pushing CUDA and some architectural features, even when they wouldn’t pay out for years.
Many report directly to him.
…By all accounts, he is rather critical for Nvidia. I don’t mean to glaze him, but TBH some generic CEO would run Nvidia to the ground in no time.
CEOs are figureheads and faces that don’t matter that much ultimately. But the damage done by the face of the company compromising it to this degree is immeasurable.
Jensen literally founded the company, and helped design the original GPU. He made some incredibly critical long-term decisions, like pushing CUDA and some architectural features, even when they wouldn’t pay out for years.
Many report directly to him.
…By all accounts, he is rather critical for Nvidia. I don’t mean to glaze him, but TBH some generic CEO would run Nvidia to the ground in no time.
Let’s hope a generic CEO gets put in place then. Nvidia’s downfall can’t come fast enough
Um, no?
CEOs get high-level direction from the board of directors. “We want to see increased sales in India.” Could be an example.
It is up to the CEO to act on that, passing directions down through the C-Suite towards managers and regular employees.
Their compensation is usually very high, you think a figurehead is getting $50m a year to do nothing and have sex with employees?