Report: Jensen Huang out at NVIDIA, tech world loses legendary founder-mode leader
beffjezos · x · 2026-11-12
Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire posted "Jensen is out," citing personal misconduct, drawing shock across the AI industry. e/acc leader Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) amplified it, calling Huang a legendary founder-mode leader. Maguire recapitulated Huang's contributions: founding NVIDIA in 1993 and pioneering the graphics chip market; powering AlexNet in 2012 to launch the deep-learning era; pivoting NVIDIA toward AI in the mid-2010s ahead of all competitors; and acquiring Mellanox for $7B in 2020 — a graphics-irrelevant but AI-compute-essential interconnect deal. Unconfirmed; awaiting official word.
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