Charlie Warzel

Staff Writer, @TheAtlantic. I host Galaxy Brain, the first and only video podcast.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Ah! Well. Nevertheless. https://t.co/PP5XVmdykL

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The fact he only had one extramarital affair with a state asset after leading the greatest technological revolution in history is what impresses me. For anyone else that number would be double, even triple, digits.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

throwing the intern party at your house is...certainly a move!

[Adam Wolnikowski @AdamWolnikowski]

Seeing a lot of posts wondering "how could this happen, Jensen was supposed to be the clean cut, honest adult in the room." Meanwhile I'm remembering the 2019 Nvidia intern party at his house where he got hammered and said some of the craziest shit I've ever heard a F500 CEO say

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

anyhow...i think everything we're seeing this week—from the legitimate economic fears to the people willing to cast all morality aside to defend huang—is a result of a historically risky industrial bet https://t.co/qmQ1l7Q48Y

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this is the type of thing that happens when the bet becomes too big. when the industry is so full of insane financial risk & also full of geopolitical & even existential risk. it scrambles brains. destroys logic. puts ppl in a position where they feel that nothing is more important than driving forward, no price too steep.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Even understanding Nvidia's load bearing role in the AI ecosystem...gotta say it's another logic pretzel for an industry that says this technology is completely and totally unstoppable and inevitable and also there's one guy at the center of everything and we may lose it all if he is no longer in control.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

we have to beat china at all costs but also it's ok if this guy was having an affair with a chinese spy (or if his actions were helping china skirt export controls) he's only human and we have to make exceptions so we can beat china. we're in pretzel town baby!

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this is the type of thing that happens when the bet becomes too big. when the industry is so full of insane financial risk & also full of geopolitical & even existential risk. it scrambles brains. destroys logic. puts ppl in a position where they feel that nothing is more important than driving forward, no price too steep.

[spor @sporadica]

Was funny to watch everyone in Tech finally, collectively, realize tech's PR was awful and that the general public was gonna eat Tech alive in short order if it wasn't helped.

So, days later, every big Tech figure on X tweets simultaneously "It's okay for the powerful tech CEO to have affairs and do whatever he wants, accountability is corruption"

Like, yes, of course, Jensen leaving Nvidia is bad, BUT you people are really really not helping the broader issue facing the entire ecosystem.

It's almost like tech subconsciously wants to be crucified

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

very good from Matteo, who you should be following imo

[Matteo Wong @matteo_wong]

https://t.co/xLw29aQ8TW

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

wrote this on Monday https://t.co/fuMm5S4N21

[sarah guo @saranormous]

.@JensenHuang is one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs of all time. He’s bent the arc of technological progress, and the growth engine of the American economy rests on the shoulders of the company he built.

Sadly, greatness doesn’t guarantee goodness. It’s disappointing.

The Economist says “no one is irreplaceable.” They are very wrong. A founder who has spent 30 years building such a unique company so capably has earned the presumption that he should keep leading it.

More importantly, our competitors and adversaries will not wait for us to find “another Jensen.”

The board is getting to the bottom of the national security and judgement questions. Depending on the answers, I expect most shareholders would want him to continue leading.

We should demand loyalty and accountability, but sainthood cannot be the price of admission to leadership. or to Team America.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

On “Radio Atlantic,” @cwarzel and @shaneharris join @HannaRosin to consider what the future of Nvidia, and the AI boom more broadly, might look like without Jensen Huang at the helm. https://t.co/53zChaUhWv

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

i get most of my news from Mr. Sausage so I’m reeling rn tbh

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

None of this is normal.

Mass casualty event incoming.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

so many good tweets tonight

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

CEOs have affairs all the time. Get over it.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

there appear to be real, meaningful gaps between the seriousness of the products being built (the money at invested, the rhetoric, the societal stakes) and the seriousness of some of the leaders here

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: In further embarrassing AI executive news this evening, OpenAI's national security officials were tricked into thinking they were speaking to the Ukrainian Intelligence service. It was actually a Russian prank duo, and they uploaded the call online. https://t.co/4RLo2gEd9n

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

you just know a tweet like this is gonna be a banger when it starts with the lil stock twitter $ tag

[Hamid @hamids]

$NVDA: Let's say Jensen Huang slept with 10 different women...let's say 20. Does it change anything?

I thought the big deal was that he slept with a spy. Now consensual sex is an issue too? The coordinated effort to smear and attack an icon is an obvious ploy to take him out as head of $NVDA ... But by whom? I want an investigation into THAT!

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

also the natsec affair was an affair with a customer

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

For those arguing Jensen should not be fired (and there are many on here), my basic question:

If you're the board, what else do you do once confirming that your CEO lied to you about one affair (which has major nat sec implications) and also was sleeping w/ a direct report (obvs policy violations for good reason)?

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

gotta go back to their roots and put in a tremendously awkward gamer who runs a geek squad desk at best buy as ceo

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

they're calling it the tweet of the decade on multiple fronts now

[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

today we are all this man

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

Jensen Huang had a relationship with an Nvidia executive who reported to him.

https://t.co/w8T3JImnJ2

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

one of the better, more interesting newsletters around imo. always feel like i'm learning something or getting some clarity on something i was experiencing fuzzily via the TL

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

While there are many theories on the tides that led to last week’s blue wave, one thing is clear: a sophisticated social strategy is essential to mobilization. @paulinaVEVO at @TheDemocrats took over today’s newsletter to share her complete playbook. Below are a few takeaways.

[dave kasten @David_Kasten]

In case you're tracking where we are in the superintelligence-risk-as-COVID-2020 metaphor, we're at "Senator retweets Zvi" stage of the operation

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this is the car that Clark Griswold brings home if National Lampoon's Vacation comes out today

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

we found him, the median voter

[David Hudnall @davidhudnall]

Spotted today in midtown Kansas City. Unfortunately, on some level, you do kind of gotta hand it to this guy