Denis (@cop_on_fire)

I'm proud I worked at @NVIDIA. @JensenHuang is the biggest reason why. I'm not there anymore, so I can speak freely. His departure is a huge loss. Especially now. I spent almost five years in the culture he built and knew people who'd worked with him for 20+ years. They respected him technically and loved him as a person. They said it without a hint of doubt. The focus stayed on the mission and on people. Good ideas got support regardless of title. That sounds like standard company values. It wasn't. Behind it was his vision and a way of leading that is out of fashion in today's founder advice: - Be kind, not arrogant. - Innovation, not marketing. - The wins belong to the people, not the CEO. - Don't fire by default. Find the person a new role. It's counterintuitive, and I doubt there is a harder way to lead. What I saw was leadership through kindness and care, not by squeezing people. A real visionary. He understood the technology and the people building it. His internal talks had vision, conviction, technical depth and jokes good enough for stand-up. You left wanting to build, and you couldn't wait for the next one. An affair, on its own, shouldn't outweigh decades of leadership. The serious questions deserve real answers. But the soap opera shouldn't decide his future. We're at a critical moment for AI. His technical judgment, vision, and commitment to the work are incredibly hard to replace. I want Jensen to keep building and leading. There's too much important work ahead.