I doubt there is anyone close to his caliber that he can be replaced with. Engineers with strong leadership skills are hard to come by. Airhead CEO's with no clue when it comes to engineering are easy.

Case in point: The new interim Colette Kress is a finance MBA. China is laughing at us right now. Many engineers at Nvidia are looking at the exit.

He should be thankful he's not in prison. Even without the spy and affair scandals, his lobbying to sell chips to China is treasonous due to how geopolitically critical AI will soon become. (That alone is not criminally treasonous, but with the MSS influence operation, it might be.) He should've resigned days ago.

I'm no pro-US nationalist or anything, but I am very very much anti-CCP.

> He had a long-term mindset

Did he? A singular CEO with 40+ direct reports and no succession plan... that alone feels like a very short term mindset to me. He could have been hit by a car tomorrow, what's the contingency plan there? Not to mention the whole 'violating export restrictions' thing, that's typically not great for the long term viability of a company either.

> He had a long-term mindset, investing heavily in Tegra and CUDA in 2009-2010, even as he was plagued by write-offs from faulty chips.

He didn't seem to have a long-term mindset when he knowingly violated export control laws (the feds are, in general, super serious about export controls) and securities laws (the feds are also, in general, super serious about whatever they consider securities fraud) over the course of at least the last six months.

It's frustrating because it was so easily avoidable. Just don't do crimes with nation-states.

Thousands and thousands of employees played a more direct role. And in fact, many would've done things different, like not violating export controls and having affairs with reports. Don't simp for a CEO, you're weird