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    23 hours ago

    He was a useful idiot, but the bad press is starting to catch up to the money. There isn’t a real need to keep him around, especially if he can’t be trusted to keep it in his pants for a few billion dollars.

    I would love a 15 minute GamersNexus video that’s just Steve laughing as he goes about his day.

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      I think it’s more about leaking industrial secrets that undermine the commercial war between USA and China, and less about his romantic life. He could have had ten affairs not involving foreign spies, and no one at Nvidia would care.

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        The board probably cares more about him fucking a subordinate. They don’t care where the GPUs are going.

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          Well, I mean if they understood China is looking to replicate and replace them. As they’ve done with so many others, they might. But they’re all interested in short term gains only. So they all happily assist.

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          Ya, that can definitely cause problems with the power dynamic. Hopefully he didn’t actually cause any abuse with it, but either way the board will likely disapprove of that.

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    It must be a major relief for him to get out before the bubble bursts. Honestly, if I were him I’d consider this shit a lifeline.

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    Suddenly, that infinate money loop looks like it’s gonna start breaking down.

    The downfall of these techbros has begun.

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      More than just that. I was listening to an NPR report on this the other day and they described how he interacted with the company and it sounds incredibly Hands-On. Micromanagement to the extreme. The way they described him was he’s the head of the pyramid and everything reports directly to him. That he seems to be involved with nearly every aspect of the company all the way down to marketing. Now I’m not 100% sure how accurate that reporting is but if that’s the perception at the company it’s extremely interesting.

      Because the other thing the report emphasized was there’s no succession plan. He’s the head of the pyramid and he didn’t want there to be another option. Apparently he says it’s because he doesn’t want stagnation, but I suspect it’s because if there is not a succession plan in place it’s harder to just cut ties with them.