Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says
In Brief Posted: 4:28 AM PST · November 13, 2026 Image Credits: Nvidia (opens in a new window) Ivan Mehta Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his…
Summary
In Brief Posted: 4:28 AM PST · November 13, 2026 Image Credits: Nvidia (opens in a new window) Ivan Mehta Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says Former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described Collette Kress, the company’s CFO who has now replaced him as interim CEO, as “a deer in the headlights” during a presentation earlier in the summer, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an anonymous source. Huang made the comment during a meeting with Nvidia’s finance team about the company’s plans to provide guarantees worth billions of dollars to data center operators that couldn’t afford to buy its chips upfront, according to the report. He reportedly also said Kress was a person who couldn’t help him steer strategy or decision-making. Kress has been with Nvidia for over 13 years now, after serving as SVP and CFO of Cisco’s Business Technology Operations Finance.
Positives
- In Brief Posted: 4:28 AM PST · November 13, 2026 Image Credits: Nvidia (opens in a new window) Ivan Mehta Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says Former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described Collette Kress, the company’s CFO who has now replaced him as interim CEO, as “a deer in the headlights” during a presentation earlier in the summer, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an anonymous source.
- Earlier in the year, she had scaled back on Nvidia’s commitment for OpenAI’s ambitious Ohio data center project.
- The company was in talks to provide $250 billion in credit to OpenAI, but ended up committing $105 billion.
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