Souleymane Saleh

Curious & Grateful, Pro-market / pro-tech conservative-libertarian from Dakar 🇸🇳.

[Nina Schick @NinaDSchick]

The only thing damaging to national security is ousting Huang and idiotic op-Eds like this one. The glee from the @economist, which has contributed not even an iota of the value that Jensen has, is palpable.

[Souleymane Saleh @d_souleymane]

@lexfridman This is a monumental mistake for America ... And every CEO should be a bit more how easy it is to take your life's work in the land of Free. This really is not a goof look .

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.

I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.

But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.

Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.

Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.

I stand with Jensen.

Love you all ❤️

[Souleymane Saleh @d_souleymane]

@maplestreetkid2 @ky_chico @WokeDudeBro i dont consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but everything feels orchestrated. None of it is really news on its own , yet everything drops all at once with the board already locked and loaded. So whoever is behind this ... is really good at their job . Chapeau Sir

[Souleymane Saleh @d_souleymane]

@brivael Muster the Rohirim ... Gondor must Stand

[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.

[Neil @NeilMcDevitt_]

This is fucking retarded

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

It's time @elonmusk

[cat ✝️ @a_musingcat]

this jensen thing is such an obviously coordinated hit it’s wild

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

It's all hands on deck for the human race and NVIDIA needs its founder at the helm.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

NVIDIA made a huge mistake firing Jensen Huang.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

They’re coming for open source.

[Souleymane Saleh @d_souleymane]

@shreyshahi Slap in the face obvious

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@zerohedge That would be an honor

[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.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

In Musk, We Trust.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

Did people actually have it better in the 1950s?

In my latest for @WSJFreeEx, I debunk some common nostalgic myths.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

A sad day for NVIDIA, developers, America, and all humanity. Jensen founded and ran one of the few companies to reach a massive scale while driving massive continued innovation and ubiquity, while others fell into the trap of ever-increasing extraction.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

It's a mistake for Nvidia to let Jensen resign.

[Souleymane Saleh @d_souleymane]

@EricLDaugh the hyenas smell a wounded animal...