Clément Delangue Says NVIDIA’s Distributed Leadership Is a Strength

Sad but still bullish on @nvidia!

I’m seeing a lot of people criticizing its structure and the lack of a clear CEO successor. Having seen it from up close, I think a lot of this criticism is ill-informed and overly simplistic (as often happens when a company is run differently from the norm).

Obviously, important to remember that this structure made NV as successful as it is and powered the AI revolution. But beyond its past success, I think it’s also what makes the company antifragile for the future.

In my opinion, NV's distributed leadership and comfort with chaos are much more of a strength than a weakness, even without Jensen. They give an unusual number of leaders room to step up and keep the whole machine moving (as we've seen in the past few days). They also keep the company flexible enough to adapt to the next paradigms (open-source/local/agents/robots/biology/chemistry/...). They also encourage hard-working, self-motivated team members with a strong sense of belonging and a willingness to help each other which will matter a lot.

Personally, with the right CEO (and NVIDIA has plenty of exceptional leaders internally who could take on that role), I believe NV can keep thriving and empower every company to become an AI company and every builder to become an AI builder.

To the @nvidia team: sending you strength and support, from me, the @huggingface team and so many people across the AI community. We need you and we’re rooting for you to carry @JensenHuang's mission forward! Taking care of his company, your company, is probably the best way to honor his legendary legacy!

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