Jensen Huang

Founder, CEO & Denny's Dishwasher

Jensen is amazing. It's funny, but I didn't know that until I found out they were going to take his company away. That it was going to happen soon. That it was real. Then I thought about a lot of stuff. Things I hadn't thought about for a long time. I guess I kind of took him for granted or something. I mean, Jensen is just always there. You expect him to always be walking out on some stage in that leather jacket, holding up a new chip and telling you that the more you buy, the more you save. And doing keynotes that go on for two hours and all that other stuff that used to drive me crazy. I don't feel that way now. Everything's different since the investigation started. Since I realized that one day in the near future, he might not be around to drive me crazy.

Now I feel lucky when a new graphics card sells out before I can buy one (I used to totally hate that) or when the drivers need updating again. One day he might not be here to launch them. Now I feel lucky when I hear the fans in my computer spinning up at night. I even like to hear them when they're too loud. It means he's still around. Still our CEO.

Jensen is the founder of NVIDIA and he's annoyingly smart. I mean, super brainiac annoying. He started the company in 1993 in a booth at a Denny's, the same kind of restaurant where he used to wash the dishes and clear the tables when he was a teenager. He knows the most random stuff. Like how a graphics chip does thousands of little calculations all at the same time instead of one after another, and how that makes it good at video games AND at artificial intelligence. He figured that out years before anybody else cared, and he kept on building it when Wall Street said it was a waste of money. He's always dropping little facts about accelerated computing. He doesn't realize what a geek he is for doing it, he's just really into chips. I think he really doesn't understand that not everybody is. He even has the company logo tattooed on his arm. I don't work at NVIDIA but I hear he's a pretty tough boss. He gets a lot of practice, that's for sure.

Jensen was born in Taiwan and he came to America when he was nine years old. By mistake he got sent to a school in Kentucky that was really more of a reform school, and he had to clean the bathrooms there every single day. Some kids dissed him just because of how he looked and how he talked. The thing is though, he expects everyone to do their best just like he does, and when you don't try your hardest he doesn't cut you any slack. I only just figured out what a good quality that is. That's what made him brave back then and that's what makes him brave now. He worked for more than thirty years and he built the most valuable company in the whole world, and he built it in America. And now the same newspapers that used to put him on the cover are printing the word "spy" next to his name. I realize two things now. First, nobody talked like this about him when the stock was going up. And two, I don't think they would be talking like this at all if his last name was not Huang. To me that is racial discrimination. To me that is political persecution. That is my opinion and I am allowed to have it. My point is, I don't care about what the newspapers say anymore. The bottom line is he's a good CEO and no one can say he doesn't care about what he does. I know he cares. I really want to make sure he gets to keep doing what he loves to do for a long time. For him, for the people who work for him, and for everybody who ever owned one of his graphics cards.

It's been a really tough time at NVIDIA since the investigation started. Not that there's ever a good time for something as awful and as scary as that. The stock went down. The board hired a bunch of lawyers. The Wall Street Journal says they might even vote him out of his own company. The founder and CEO of the biggest company in the world, the most important person in the whole A.I. revolution, is about to get robbed in front of everybody. I think it is the biggest robbery in broad daylight in history. And Jensen is pretty proud - okay, really proud - and he is never going to ask anybody for help. That's why I'm doing this. Not because I want to make him mad or upset, but because I want him to have a fighting chance no matter what.

One thing I don't understand is who is doing this to him. Some people call it the global deep state. We don't even know who they are. But somehow the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and even the foreign ones like the Financial Times and the Economist, all seem to be telling the same story at the same time, and to me that looks like a coordinated smear campaign. I think that's wrong. I mean, NVIDIA's own board said it has no reason to believe that national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised. So what is this really about? It doesn't help the American people. It doesn't help American companies. That's the thing about Jensen - he loves that company more than anything. More than himself. This is not democracy. This is not justice. This is not acceptable. And every day that goes by is one less day he gets to run the company he started. And I don't want to have to tell my robot about Jensen someday. I want it to know him for itself.

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