there is no replacing a founder like Jensen.
There never has been, and there can never be, a true succession for a founder like him. Nvidia ends today, and is replaced with a thing cosplaying nvidia. It will be run by custodians trying and failing to preserve the flame he ignited
if you're in vc you probably don't want to hear this:
1 - there are great operators turned angels w micro funds who flourish
2 - on the other end, there are "the usual suspects" that manage more money every vintage to write larger and larger checks to define categories
3 - everyone stuck in the middle has an expiration date on their fund and needs to either scale up or down.
3.1 - third way is to deliver insane value to founders but that's copium
The economically devastated Rust Belt resident asked God, “I had faith in you, but you didn’t save us. You let our town die. Why?”
To this God replied, “I sent you three data-center proposals. What more did you expect?”
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the best employees are like “self-guided missiles.”
“You don’t even need to tell them what the goal is. They self-identify the goal, and then they reach it.”
“Average people, you tell them the goal, and then you need to spend weekly iterations with them. So you spend management time. That’s what I don’t want.”
“The best executives are very tough.”
“Likable is never the goal for executives. The goal is always to achieve the goal with the minimal number of resources spent.”