Nvidia Should Call Tim Cook, the One Leader Big Enough to Step Into Jensen Huang’s Empty Chair
Tim Cook is the logical choice to run Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) after Jensen Huang, says 24/7 Wall St. co-founder Douglas A. McIntyre.
Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive this week after reports that he had an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence officials considered a Chinese spy. Nvidia gave no reason for his departure and named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO while its board searches for a permanent leader. President Trump has also floated Cook for the job.
McIntyre makes his case in under 90 seconds. Cook recently stepped back from running Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and at 66 he is young to retire. He spent years traveling the world for Apple and got to know presidents, kings and the people who run huge businesses. Of the people available right now, McIntyre says, Cook is really the only one who fits the bill.
He also lists reasons Cook might say yes. Patriotism is one, since the United States still needs to lead in AI. Cook is famous and could become more famous. He has the skills of a technologist. He is rich, and the job would make him richer.
If Cook has nothing to do for the next two or three years beyond sitting on nonprofit boards, McIntyre says, he would be the perfect person to come to Nvidia, a company that needs a rescue without Huang.
Nvidia has not named any candidates. The company reports quarterly results on November 17, its first report since Huang left.
Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.
McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
