NVIDIA Has a Single Point of Failure, and That Is Jensen Himself; as Questions Mount Over Team Green’s Missing Successor

NVIDIA’s CEO is indeed a “superstar” personality, but judging by how massive his company has become, investors are now skeptical about who will succeed Jensen.

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Has No Plans to Name His Successor In the Near Term, But There Are Concerns

Team Green has been a ‘multi-decade’ effort under the leadership of CEO Jensen Huang, and he has managed to scale up the company to a $5 trillion entity, becoming the world’s most valuable firm, not only by market capitalization, but also with what NVIDIA is doing in the realm of AI. However, today’s Bloomberg report has opened a new debate, focusing on who will replace NVIDIA’s CEO, and the outlet concludes there are no “clear plans” for now, suggesting it might be something Jensen has yet to decide.

Well, given that companies in the ‘Big Tech’ segment are too large to rely on a single entity, they are usually organized in a hierarchy that naturally identifies a successor to the CEO. For example, in Apple’s case, it is reported that Tim Cook would be succeeded by Apple’s John Ternus, who is the SVP of Hardware Engineering at the company. But in Jensen’s case, he is known to have implemented a flat hierarchy, with more than 60 directors reporting directly to him. Given his engineering background, NVIDIA’s CEO is known to micromanage multiple times at once.

While this is one of the major reasons behind NVIDIA’s success, it is also a huge concern for…