Nvidia Staff Wants Jensen Huang Back

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned amid an investigation into extramarital affairs. Yet, an internal poll reveals 88 percent of surveyed staff want him to remain in charge.

SPEAKER_6 (1:37)

Right. With only like 1 percent favoring his removal.

SPEAKER_4 (1:39)

Which is just a wild statistic.

SPEAKER_6 (1:41)

It completely goes against the mechanics of how people behave in a corporate crisis.

SPEAKER_4 (1:46)

I mean, normally when a scandal of the size hits a chief executive, the immediate instinct across the workforce is just pure self-preservation.

SPEAKER_6 (1:53)

Exactly. You start seeing people quietly scrubbing their LinkedIn profiles.

SPEAKER_4 (1:57)

Oh, totally.

SPEAKER_6 (1:58)

Departments try to distance themselves from the executive suite.

And there's just general desire for the board to quickly remove the problem. You know, so the stock price can stabilize and everyone can get back to work.

SPEAKER_4 (2:10)

But here, you have the exact inverse of that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_6 (2:14)

The employees are actively rallying behind the individual who created the crisis.

SPEAKER_4 (2:18)

I think the instinctive reaction for most people outside the tech industry, looking at an 88% support metric, is to just assume it's people protecting the hand that signs their paychecks.

SPEAKER_6 (2:28)

Sure. That's an easy assumption.

SPEAKER_4 (2:30)

But this kind of reaction points to something much deeper than standard employee retention or just basic satisfaction with a compensation package.

SPEAKER_6 (2:39)

Standard corporate loyalty is sticking around through a bad product cycle or maybe trusting the management team during a difficult reorganization. Right. But you're looking at, in this data, is a highly specific structural phenomenon. The workforce doesn't view him as just some hired manager who committed a fireable human resources offense.

SPEAKER_4 (2:58)

They view him as the literal architect of their professional reality.

SPEAKER_6 (3:01)

Exactly. The loyalty isn't just high, it is absolute and it's tied directly to his identity rather than his title.

SPEAKER_4 (3:10)

But we have to question if they're actually loyal to him or if they are just loyal to the wealth he's generated for them.

SPEAKER_6 (3:16)

That's a fair point.

SPEAKER_4 (3:17)

I mean, these are rational data-driven engineers. It is hard to imagine them operating on pure emotion and some sort of founder worship.

SPEAKER_6 (3:25)

Right. They aren't typically driven by sentiment.

SPEAKER_4 (3:27)

So if your entire net worth is tied up in unvested company stock and the guy who knows how to keep that stock high gets pushed out, your loyalty is probably just a defense mechanism for your own portfolio.

SPEAKER_6 (3:40)

The financial element is a huge factor without a doubt. But if it were only about the stock, you would see a different kind of panic.

SPEAKER_4 (3:48)

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_6 (3:49)

You'd see employees demanding the board bring in a highly competent stabilization CEO. Someone from a major private equity firm or a veteran tech operator to sue the markets.

SPEAKER_4 (4:00)

Just to stop the bleeding?

SPEAKER_6 (4:01)

Right.

But instead, they are specifically demanding him. They're demanding the exact person who is currently radioactive to the market.

SPEAKER_4 (4:09)

Which tells you they don't believe the company can actually function without his specific brain in the building.