Apple, Alphabet and Uber survived major founder transitions. Nvidia will be a harder test
CNBC reports that Jensen Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and led it for 33 years as it became the world's most valuable company, resigned as chief executive in October 2026 amid reports of extramarital affairs, with CFO Colette Kress temporarily filling in. Experts and investors say Huang's charisma, supply-chain relationships and Trump ties will be hard to replicate, and that Nvidia had no succession plan.
