Time will tell if this is the best for the company... I hope he was a very hands-off CEO and mostly did marketing gigs.
He's famously incredibly hand-ons. I think he has something like 60 executive direct reports.
> I hope he was a very hands-off CEO and mostly did marketing gigs.
Hard to imagine that could have been the case given that he was Nvidia's CEO from the very beginning.
My understanding is that he was a very consolidated-power CEO. No real second in command / replacement-in-training.
But that doesn't preclude there being a lot of competent talent on the second rung. (I think 60 people reported directly to him.)