Jensen Huang on Nvidia succession weeks before scandal hit: 'Just as I can be fired, the next CEO has to be hired'

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Before Nvidia's succession crisis, Jensen Huang said its next CEO should come from inside the company and earn the role.

Weeks before Jensen Huang's extramarital affair scandal rocked Nvidia, the CEO made comments about his succession that now seem eerily prescient. "Just as I can be fired, the next CEO has to be hired," Huang told Bloomberg's "The Circuit" in a video released on Thursday and recorded on October 14. Huang, who has led Nvidia for 33 years, was asked during the interview whether his daughter, Madison Huang — a senior director of product marketing for physical AI at Nvidia — was in line to take over. "First of all, I don't hope the job on her," Huang said.

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