Con Ruane

🇮🇪 🇩🇪 IT professional, retired. I don't follow anyone just because they follow me.

[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

SEPA-XML aus LibreOffice Calc erzeugen – kleines Open-Source-Makro (DE/EN), MIT-Lizenz.
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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

NVIDIA employees: go on strike. Now.

Not for a raise. Not for more PTO. For your founder.

Jensen Huang was just pushed out in four days, after thirty-three years building the company. The GPU, CUDA, the entire infrastructure the world's AI runs on today. And it ends with a three-line press release on a Thursday morning.

Here are the facts. Sunday, Huang admits to an affair and apologizes to his teams. The board launches an independent investigation, led by Wachtell Lipton and a former federal prosecutor. Thursday, he resigns under pressure. The investigation hasn't reached any conclusion. No technology leak has been established. No misconduct has been announced.

The sentence came before the verdict.

Let me be clear: if the investigation shows that NVIDIA secrets ended up in Beijing, he has to go, and nobody will defend him. But you don't unplug the most important builder of the decade over press reports and a market panic. It's called the presumption of innocence. It applies to founders too.

And it has worked before.

November 2023. OpenAI's board fires Sam Altman on a Friday night. Within days, more than 700 of roughly 770 employees sign a letter: bring Altman back, or we all walk. Five days later, Altman is back, and most of the board that fired him is gone.

Call it the Altman precedent: in a company built on talent, real power doesn't sit with the board. It sits with the people who build.

NVIDIA's engineers hold that power today. They're the ones running the machine. Without them, there is no next generation of chips.

So put down your tools. All of you. And tell the board: no successor until the investigation is done. Facts first, sentence second.

A founder isn't an executive you swap out. A founder is the soul of the company. Apple learned that when it pushed out Steve Jobs in 1985. It took twelve years and a near-bankruptcy to bring him back.

NVIDIA doesn't have twelve years. The AI race won't wait for anyone.

A company's soul isn't something you vote on in a boardroom. It's something you fight for.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Forcing Jensen Huang, the very man who built this company, to resign is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever witnessed. Absolutely disgraceful. Fuck you.

[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

@valleysqueenx You're absolutely right, he doesn't just need to be stopped, Alex Gibney needs to go to jail.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

It's genuinely difficult to imagine how anyone could write this sketch. Utter genius...

[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

Absolutely. I can't imagine the board could do something that dumb. Nvidia is where it is now because of his leadership.
So he's had some affairs and it's become public—big fucking deal. That's life, and it's between him and his wife. No one else has any right to pass judgment on their relationship, barring any possible security issues.
While I do think @JensenHuang would be a great asset at SpaceX AI, I think I'd prefer Jensen Huang and Elon Musk working closely as they already are, but in separate organizations.

[Mason @MasonWaltemyer]

🚨JUST IN- $NVDA is signing their own death warrant…

$NVDA if you fire @JensenHuang it will be the DUMBEST decision you’ll ever make. I want you to realize, every top engineer at your company will be following Jensen right over to $SPCX and $TSLA. That’ll go for your shareholders as well.

Jensen & Elon would then create an #AI conglomerate. Becoming your TOP competitor…

A Jensen & @elonmusk SUPERTEAM would ANNIHILATE any potential competition.

@grok what would this mean for $SPCX?

[Alix @AlixG_2]

The top 1% made it possible to get anything delivered to your front door within a day.

The bottom 1% will steal it off your porch.

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

If a billionaire figures out how to build houses for half the price, I want him building millions of them.

If your first concern is how rich that would make him or how much inequality that would create, then we have very different housing priorities.

[Peter Helm 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 @HelmPeter]

Aber wir wollten doch laut @SteffenBilger und dem @BMV hier Vorreiter sein und nun sind wir in Europa bestenfalls 12er!

Ach ja, ich vergaß, da war noch was, Mercedes und BMW brauchen noch ein paar Monate.

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[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

Prophetic. Here's the original interview.
https://t.co/z3UUtHyP5w

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸This was 10 years ago folks. Listen to the wisdom and accuracy she predicted.🇺🇸

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸This was 10 years ago folks. Listen to the wisdom and accuracy she predicted.🇺🇸

[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

@elonmusk Hmmm, this has a Grohmann Engineering vibe.

[John F. Kennedy Jnr Awakening @JohnfKennedy608]

Everyone needs to listen closely..

[stevenmarkryan @stevenmarkryan]

The Truth About Elon's Wealth

[Captain Eli @TheCaptainEli]

In February 2004 Elon Musk wrote the check that put Tesla Motors on the road: $6.5 million of a $7.5 million Series A, plus the chairman's seat.

He led the next round in February 2005. He co-led the $40 million round in May 2006 that brought in Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That August he published The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan on the company blog, a sports car to pay for an affordable car, and so on down to the mass market. He pushed for the Roadster's carbon fiber body. By January 2009, Bloomberg reported, he had put $70 million of his own money into the company.

CNBC still wrote this on September 10, 2018: "Though Musk didn't found Tesla, his DNA is very much a part of the company."

Read the very next sentence of the same article: "He was one of its original investors and chairman of the board in 2004 before becoming CEO in 2008."

Original investor. Chairman in 2004. CNBC typed both facts and still filed him under "didn't found."

That question had been settled nine years earlier, in court and in writing. In 2009 Martin Eberhard sued, and one of the things he asked a San Mateo County judge for was a declaration that he and Marc Tarpenning were the only two founders. In July the judge struck that request. In September the case was settled and Tesla named five co-founders: Eberhard, Tarpenning, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright.

Eberhard's own statement that day: "As a co-founder of the company, Elon's contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary."

The man who went to court over the title called Elon Musk a co-founder in his own words. A business network still decided it knew better.

Elon Musk has told his side too. In April 2022 he wrote that the Tesla he walked into was "a shell corp" with "literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion's Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard." Then: "If filing a shell corp constitutes 'founding a company', then I'd be the only founder of PayPal, since I filed the original incorporation docs for https://t.co/l4ZN3b77mC (later renamed PayPal), but that's not what founding means."

And the line that says the most: "I put in all I had, whereas Eberhard, who was worth over $10M at the time, refused to invest a penny to help Tesla."

So why slip a false founder line into a 2018 piece? Look at the headline it sat under: "Musk's defiant, rebel CEO persona is putting his company and its investors at risk, say management experts." The article argued Tesla needed "someone to help keep Musk in line." Shrink his role at the birth of the company and it gets much easier to argue he is replaceable at the top of it. Legacy media has been running that play on Elon Musk for years.

Tesla closed at $19.03 a share, split-adjusted, the day that story ran. On November 9, 2026 it closed at $378.05. The investors CNBC's experts were so worried about made nearly twenty times their money by keeping him exactly where he was.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Elon has nearly 160,000 direct employees throughout his companies and supports almost 870,000 jobs.

Over five years, based on conservative estimates, @elonmusk’s companies have injected $338 billion into the US economy.

@Tesla makes the first and second most American made cars.

@SpaceX made the first fully reusable rocket and the world’s largest satellite internet constellation.

As Axios says: his “companies are central to America's technological and military power.”

In the end, the only people the Democrats will hurt are the American people.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

🚨HOLY COW: @ElonMusk has announced his support for Warren Buffett’s plan to eliminate the deficit in 5 minutes:

“Just pass a law that says, ‘Anytime there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection.’”

Do you support this?

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

Growing up is realizing that Bernie Sanders is trash

[Con Ruane @ConRuane]

@Duracelde @ulfposh Naja, das gilt vielleicht für unser Sonnensystem, aber nicht für unser Leben hier auf der Erde oder die Erde selbst, denn die Erde ist kein geschlossenes System. Wir werden ständig mit neuer Energie bombardiert – mehr, als wir jemals verbrauchen können.