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33 years. One CEO. Gone in a single morning.

This week, Jensen Huang resigned from Nvidia — the company he co-founded in 1993 and turned into the engine of the AI boom.

The reason: reports of an affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset.
CFO Colette Kress is now interim CEO.

I'll leave the scandal to the headlines.

What stays with me is this 👇

The world's most important AI company had a single point of failure.
And it wasn't a chip. It was a person.

As engineers, we'd never accept that in our systems:
❌ One database, no replica
❌ One server, no failover
❌ One deploy key, one owner

But look at our teams:
→ The one engineer who "just knows" how billing works
→ The architecture that lives in one person's head
→ The client relationship only one person can handle

That's not talent. That's risk wearing a hoodie.

3 questions every tech lead should ask this week:

1️⃣ If your strongest engineer disappeared tomorrow, what couldn't you ship?
2️⃣ Which critical decision isn't written down anywhere?
3️⃣ What breaks if YOU aren't in the room?

Nvidia has the bench to absorb this. Most teams don't.

People build companies. Systems keep them alive.

What's your team's bus factor? 👇

#Leadership #TechLeadership #EngineeringManagement #Nvidia

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