alt Hacker NewsHe produced a one-in-a-zillion success, and he certainly did it the hard way -- he was apparently unusually hands on. The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot, but I think it's apt.
But.
He put together a string of frankly insane mistakes that are now endangering that 5 trillion dollar company from both the inside and outside. There's no chance in hell that they're going to go from $5T back to 0, but you are not understanding the trouble they're in.
Internally, boinking your direct reports (who also happened to have a string of recent promotions) is incredibly ruinous to a company's internal culture, destroying notions of internal meritocracy. How would you feel if all your hard work was apparently not as important as putting out for the CEO? Do you think that would make you eager to do your best work for that CEO? And that's even before thinking about the insane legal liability.
Externally, he got honeypotted by a foreign government and managed to simultaneously mess with national security and, it seems, circumvent export controls to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. nVidia is in some extremely serious shit, and will have the government breathing down their necks between now and the end of time.
I think his unfair, and much of it not true.
Jensen is actually extremely well respected by his staff and has the highest staff approvals in almost all of tech.
I'm certain that his personal foibles won't engender him any love, but it's not unheard of.
Elon Musk has had sexual relations with at least 4 staffers, children with one - while he was having children with his wife.
Where's the scandal?
"he got honeypotted by a foreign government and managed "
Where is the evidence of this? Give me one specific allegation?
His mistress was passing information to the government, ok, as will many nationals that have met with him, and as US nationals often do as well.
Elon is in direct contact with Putin several times a year since 2022 - and there's no good reason for that.
Consider putting all of that in context vis-a-vis much of the rest of corporate America and consider the rest of his contributions.
Obviously it's fair to bring all of this up, but it's intensely hypocritical for the most part.