Everyone knows by now about the Jensen Huang saga. I am not here to pile onto the man’s morals – that is between him, his wife, and God. I am just here for the GLORIOUS MEMES:
The Sydney Sweeney one is my favourite, personally, but then, I WOULD say that.
Ah, wait, there is one more absolutely brilliant one:
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the absolute irony involved with the fact that the guy behind the company that designs AI chips, is now the subject of an entire global meme-fest generated using those exact same chips?
However, there is a serious undertone to all of this madness. Jensen’s johnson got him into real trouble, to the point where, earlier today, he resigned as CEO of NVIDIA – the company that he co-founded. And, let’s be clear about something:
NVIDIA IS Jensen Huang. He IS the mind and motivating spirit behind the company. He has now been replaced by the CFO of the company – a woman, who joined NVIDIA years ago and has seen her fortunes rise as a direct result of Huang’s vision, drive, and talent.
This is Colette Kress, the new boss:
Yup. A girrrrrrl-boss STRAWNG INDEPENDENTISS WAMMENZ!!!! is now running NVIDIA.
Keep in mind that NVIDIA is a company founded by men, which was as far as I can tell an engineering-first company, led by engineers. And Huang is a serious engineer – he has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in electrical engineering. Anyone who knows anything about electrical engineering, knows damned well that it is an extremely challenging subject that requires serious brains.
He has now been replaced by a female bean-counter. It is entirely possible for CFOs to make good CEOs, if they possess real strategic brains – but these are relatively rare. The CFO provides the financial firepower and support that makes the execution of the CEO’s vision and plan possible; one cannot work without the other. But the CFO typically plays the role of the voice of reason and evidence to counterbalance the CEO’s ambitions and growth aspirations. It is not in the nature of a CFO to be a visionary, because that is not the CFO’s job.
Add to that the fact that the new CFO is a woman, and you have a situation where the soul of NVIDIA has just walked out of the building.
This may well be the beginning of the end of the AI bubble. If so, then we are all in for an EXTREMELY rough ride, given how insane stock valuations have gotten over the past few years.
On top of that, there are some really weird things going on behind the scenes, as Clayton Morris pointed out:
So, what exactly is going on behind the scenes?
I do not pretend to know. Jensen’s wang has spawned a legendary generation of memes, but that is merely a highly amusing series of distractions.
All we can say for sure, with complete certainty, is that the “standard narrative” being peddled in the (((media)))))))))))), about how this is all a big Chinese spying operation, is absolutely a lie.
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