I watched Jensen Huang speak 9 days before his resignation. Two things stand out now.
In a column written after Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, Alistair Barr recalls watching Huang at a San Francisco conference nine days earlier, where the executive who kept 60 direct reports answered a question about leadership structure in the AI age with "I don't know the answer to that." Barr argues the flat structure leaves no obvious deputy to take the reins and, with hindsight, sees a farewell in Huang's parting words to interviewer Lin Qiao.
