At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted.
After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia’s chief executive officer, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huang’s usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he’d started using phrases like “whatever” and “I don’t care.”
For the decades he spent building Nvidia into a multitrillion-dollar AI chip behemoth, Huang was famous for his attention to the tiniest of details, from chip architecture to the compensation packages of even the most junior employees at the company. Now, in the eyes of the people in the room, he had given up.
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