Jensen Huang Called Her "A Deer in Headlights" — Now Colette Kress Runs Nvidia
aakashgupta · x · 2026-11-13
Three months ago, Jensen Huang cut off CFO Colette Kress in front of Nvidia's top finance staff, calling her "a deer in the headlights" and merely a "reporting CFO." This week the board pushed him out, and Kress is now interim CEO of the $4 trillion company — while keeping the CFO job.
Kress joined from Cisco in 2013, when Nvidia's annual revenue was $4.13 billion; last fiscal year it hit $215.9 billion. She has been the other voice on earnings calls explaining Huang's bets to Wall Street. The open question: the "reports numbers but can't set strategy" critique now hangs over someone running the whole company. Nvidia has also disclosed $164.5 billion in financial commitments.
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