Can Nvidia survive without tech titan Jensen Huang?

Jensen Huang and his wife once stopped by here on one of their tours of local Taipei shops and tried the tofu pudding. The memory tastes bittersweet for owner Jane Xie. I'm shocked. It's just shocking. It's a bit of a shame. We used to think he was a perfect person. We Taiwanese people really loved him. He was the pride of Taiwan. I think she is the light of Taiwan. More than anywhere, his birthplace Taiwan saw the leather-clad founder of NVIDIA as a rock star. And now the world knows he acted like one, with an alleged Chinese spy and reportedly two of his employees. The company he built over three decades, with big, early and successful bets on AI, must find a replacement. That's no mean feat. Huang ran a tight ship, with 60 people reporting directly to him, no succession plan and the company's success largely credited to his superhero status. What's more, NVIDIA is the main hardware supplier powering the AI industry, meaning humanity's latest leap forwards depends on one company, which until recently depended on one man. It has this issue called key man risk, which means NVIDIA And Jensen, you know, one, he symbolizes the company who can replace someone that's led this company, you know, to the center of the AI universe. From Apple's Steve Jobs on, tech has been built on cults of personality. The sector must now reflect on whether figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman are visionary heroes or walking liabilities.