SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 13 — Hours after Jensen Huang resigned from Nvidia, shocked tech insiders at a conference in San Francisco saw his departure as troubling for the business but were uncertain over how heavy the impact would be.
Many were still processing the spectacular departure of the rockstar CEO, who came to embody the global boom for AI chips but fell from grace after revelations of multiple extramarital affairs, one reportedly with a Chinese spy.
“It’s a blow to I think everything and pretty much every player in (the) space, except direct competitors,” Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said in onstage remarks.
“The culture of the company is a lot... the personality of the CEO that is there for a long time,” Ghodsi said.
