Jensen Huang Just Resigned and Nvidia Has No Permanent CEO. The Last Company That Did That Left Shareholders 17 Points Behind the Market
247wallst.com reports that Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's chief executive, president, and board member on November 12, 2026, days after admitting an affair, and that the board named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO while Harvey C. Jones becomes the company's first chair. The article weighs the aftermath against Intel's 2018 and McDonald's 2019 CEO exits — Intel, left with no ready successor, trailed the market by 17 points a year later, and the article supposes a $100,000 Nvidia stake would land near $77,760 on the Intel path versus $97,689 on the McDonald's path.
