Follow-Up: Trump Says Only One Man Can Succeed Jensen Huang at Nvidia: Apple's Tim Cook
U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday, November 12, that after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang's resignation, there is only one man to take his place: Tim Cook of Apple. Trump called it "a legend replaces a legend." The post went out at 7:29 a.m. Pacific Time, hours after Nvidia announced that Huang had resigned.
In the post, Trump said Huang, Nvidia's co-founder, had "done a fantastic job." The post is the president's own public naming of a preferred successor on his social platform; it is not a decision by Nvidia's board. Nvidia's announcement the same day said only that the board has begun a formal search that will consider internal and external candidates, with no timetable and no list of candidates published. There is no indication that the board has approached Cook.
Nvidia said its board accepted Huang's resignation as president, chief executive and board member on November 11, effective immediately. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is serving as interim chief executive while continuing as CFO, Harvey C. Jones has been named the board's first-ever chair, and the company will report its fiscal third-quarter results on November 17 as scheduled.
Cook stepped down as Apple's chief executive on August 31 and was succeeded on September 1 by John Ternus; Cook now serves as Apple's executive chairman. As of publication, neither Cook nor Apple had commented on Trump's post, and Nvidia had not commented on it either.
Cook's name had entered public discussion of the Nvidia succession a day earlier: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management had named Cook, alongside former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, as an outside option in published commentary on November 11. Those were a commentator's suggestions, not candidates confirmed by Nvidia's board. Trump's post has now raised the question at the presidential level.
(Source: Donald Trump)
Source: Donald Trump
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