Nvidia Staff Petition the Board to Bring Back Jensen Huang
Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
An internal Nvidia post urging the board to weigh employee sentiment about the company's former CEO Jensen Huang has drawn more than 1,600 comments, most of them backing his reinstatement. WIRED reports on the petition, titled 'Bring Back THE Boss,' and what the outpouring says about how workers view the executive who built Nvidia into an AI powerhouse.
An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia's former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
- soundworlds
> "We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance,” wrote another.
I think if it was one affair, this would hold. It is allegedly 3 and counting, and includes a likely spy from a rival nation, and likely knowledge of selling to the rival nation despite the current laws.
You can think he is amazing at many parts of this job, but at this point it is less of a mistake, and more a pattern of behavior that he knew was hugely risky and decided to cover up.
This is a terrible time for Nvidia employees. But the solution is not to invite the cause of the terrible time back in.
- dantillberg
Jensen's not coming back anytime soon. You can disregard/diminish the affairs, and you can believe that the "spy" angle is overblown/wrong.
But Jensen Huang has admitted to a longstanding affair with the CEO of a company that appears to exist only to evade ITAR restrictions. It's just impossible to believe that Jensen did not know what MegaSpeed was doing. While by all appearances he facilitated and benefited from it personally.
And one can also believe that ITAR restrictions on GPU sales are dumb, but evading them still counts as selling sensitive weapons to the enemy, both legally and politically.
- bvcp
nvidias legendary run will end. you cant hire founders enthusiasm or care. they will replace him with a robot who will layer responsibility and insulate themselves and play earnings season. id hate to be a nvidia shareholder.
- imartin2k
He is simply untrustworthy now. He could not say or do anything related to China without suspicions about his motives. There is also quite a risk that Alice has taken compromising photos of him, which could be used to blackmail him.
He should have been more paranoid. That he wasn’t makes him unfit to be CEO of Nvidia.
- jmathai
I imagine there's a lot of mixed emotions at Nvidia. Jensen seemed to have a very likable persona about him and he truly was a great CEO of the company. I imagine many looked up to him and are left to make sense of the past week.
They've also taken a pretty big pay cut this week and potentially into the future.
- cmiles8
It appears this is about a lot more than just cheating on his wife. It’s likely going to get a lot worse before it gets better and any thinking that he’s coming back is incredibly naive.
- joegibbs
I see where they’re coming from. Is the CEO in the position to be an upstanding moral citizen and flawless in his person life or is his job to increase the size of the business and returns to shareholders? If it’s not actually damaging to the company’s reputation and it will lose value without him…
On the other hand the potential spy stuff and corruption is quite worrying.
- vanh4lt
I am not from the USA. So I would love some opinions.
- How certain are reports about spies in general? There has been reports lately, that I have seen, involving spies. For example the one in SF...
- Would it be wise to think that there are powerful people that want him out of the company? Because the affair is one thing, but there is an accusation that should be investigated, right?
- He has been too many years in the company... this is not the first personal issue we can judge him about. Why now?
Thanks!
- PsycorAI
I loved and admired Jensen. He and his team's vision, energy, positivity and ingenuity have kept other companies scrambling to catch up for decades - since 1993!
If the investigation finds he didn't divulge secrets or participate in moving chips to China I'd like to see him brought back by popular demand of his team, and also investors.
Hopefully Nvidia will survive and thrive. After all Apple sort of survived the passing of Steve Jobs, ..after a while.
- StrangeClone
Great work!
He is one of the exceptional visionary CEO who avoided mass layoffs and grew company with least immoral business decisions. Now it's time for employees to support him.