Jen-Hsun plans on sticking around as Nvidia CEO in meat and robot form for another 100 years or so
Jen-Hsun Huang is the longest running tech CEO on the planet, having co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. He has served as president and chief executive officer since its inception and has no plans to give it up. In fact he's banking on a robotic future that will see him continuing on as CEO for another 100-odd years.
In another four decades, I'll be robotic.
Ahead of today's GTC Keynote(opens in new tab) Jen-Hsun's interview with CNBC's Katie Tarasov has been published in full on YouTube. He covers a range of topics, from waxing lyrical about hand delivering the first server to ChatGPT's creators, OpenAI, to why gamers should be grateful for Nvidia's diversions away from pure gaming graphics, and how to diversify in the face of threats to TSMC.
But he wraps up the interview answering Tarasov's question as to whether there was any end in sight for him at the head of Nvidia.
«I feel like I'm making a real contribution to the company…and so I think for so long as I believe I could do that, and I don't know exactly how long that's going to be, but three or four decades I would say.»
As a «sprightly and enthusiastic and energetic» 60 year-old that would take the Nvidia CEO up into his nineties as company's number one. How does he plan to carry on that long? Has Nvidia's researchers been investigating the elixir of youth?
Maybe. But if it has, it's been focusing on a silicon-based solution, because Jen-Hsun's planning on continuing as a metallic CEO for at least the next 70 years or so.
«In another four decades, I'll be robotic,» he says with a smile, «and, maybe another three or four decades after that. So hopefully I'll get to enjoy this for a very long time.»
And why should gamers be grateful
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