Some of my (not famous) friends who were at Google in the earlier days told me Sergey Brin was always having sex with women in meeting rooms, and that said friends would sometimes walk in on him doing that. Jensen is just hypercompetent and serious so people didn't expect this
-> Huang joins Twitter
-> Immediately starts advocating for open models
-> 3 months later is expelled from the company he's been running for 23 years
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
Days before Christmas 2023, I emailed Jensen after an investor pulled out last minute. We didn’t have cash for payroll, and I was talking with bankruptcy lawyers.
Jensen called me at 6am. Later that day, I was having dinner with his team to bridge the company. Four months later, we rang the NASDAQ bell for our IPO.
Jensen Huang rescued me from probably living in debt the rest of my life. I was told I was one of just three hires that he approved during the pandemic, during a hiring freeze. I've never spoken to him, and only passed by him in HQ once. His personal life is frankly none of my business. But as a leader, I have yet to meet a better one. Ousting him is financial suicide, and I can only assume there is a hidden ulterior motive because I can't fathom any other reason for destroying the company's value.
I hear that Huang's downfall was orchestrated by someone from the highest levels, and that Huang's indiscretions were very well known.
i.e., A dossier was dropped on the Times.
Just what I heard. No, I won't say where.
This is a great example below of how Jensen operated. Quick and decisive. It's also a good demonstration of his influence on open source. The closed-source crowd must be doing cartwheels right now.