Blankfein on Jensen's ouster: 'The graveyards are filled with indispensable men'
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-11-12
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein reacted to Jensen Huang's ouster with a Shakespearean line: "Sad about Jensen. But as de Gaulle said, 'The graveyards are filled with indispensable men.'" Matt Slotnick called the quote impossibly hard, and it rapidly became one of the most-shared takes on the AI industry's latest leadership turmoil.
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