Musk on hiring Jensen Huang amid Nvidia board talks: "That would be an honor"
Musk replied "That would be an honor" to a ZeroHedge post urging him to hire Jensen Huang — not a formal offer, but notable given SpaceX's heavy reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
On the evening of Nov. 11 (US), ZeroHedge posted "Elon please hire Jensen" on X; about two hours later Musk replied, "That would be an honor." He named no role or terms, so it is not a formal offer.
The backdrop is a Wall Street Journal report that Nvidia's board was preparing to discuss Huang's future. A majority of its 11 directors can remove the CEO with or without cause, and Bloomberg reported the board is working with an outside firm on possible successors. Nvidia shares fell more than 8% in extended trading; quarterly earnings are due Nov. 17.
Musk and Huang go back years: Huang has said he personally delivered the first DGX-1 to Musk in 2016, and in October SpaceX disclosed a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion of Vera Rubin GPU leases. Whether Huang leaves Nvidia, or joins any Musk company, is unconfirmed.
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