Jensen Huang, Elizabeth Holmes, and America's most powerful religion.
In an essay for Business Insider's Discourse, Zak Jason takes Jensen Huang's November 2026 resignation from Nvidia — after reported affairs, with a $5.8 trillion company and 130,000 signatories demanding his return — as a stress test of founder worship. He argues the cult of the founder has become America's most consequential religion, fed by tech merch, founder schools, and consultancies that build good cults on purpose.
