I just finished watching Jensen Huang’s CES keynote, and I’m starting to get a bit weary of the whole performance. It’s beginning to feel more like a revival meeting than a tech showcase. Maybe I’m being cynical, but it seems like we’ve reached peak “founder worship,” where success convinces leaders they’re messiahs here to save the world. Is this just me feeling the fatigue, or am I turning into an old man yelling at clouds? This edition of CES also feels a lot like the one just before the internet bubble popped, just replace "web-enabled" with "AI-enabled," and we literally have the same vibe.
Is it just me or is the Jensen Huang "messiah" vibe getting really old?
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I mean when you head a company that controls the economy and you make a fortune for everyone. You get treated like a messiah.
Almost like he has no idea what he’s doing and pure luck has brought his company to where it is today. Oh, and cooking the books, there’s a lot of that too.
America worships money, so when you have a founder who’s created wealth for those who were fortunate enough to invest with them, they tend to get worshiped.
Yeah why isn’t this 4 trillion market cap company not 10x ing this past year
His recent interview on Rogan is entertaining. He was talking about nvidia’s early struggling days and how they “had to create a problem to solve” (paraphrasing).
And it really clicked in my head, that’s what going on with tech now. The big “new” tech for the last ~15 years is desperately trying to justify its existence by solving “problems” that aren’t very problematic, and usually create bigger problems. Their real skill is convincing non technical rich people to give them money.
Social media, Crypto, VR, AI ,self driving, drones, robots. Shit that we don’t really need, doesn’t improve our lives, actually makes us jobless, only benefits the corporate/government/military elite classes, yet they promise that they are very revolutionary yadayada.
The tech/power for these things isn’t good enough yet, but somehow they amass and spend infinite money on them purely on the marketing of future usefulness in some sci-fi fantasy world that isn’t going to happen for the vast majority of people.
Huang himself does have a great story of coming from poverty etc, that part is inspiring. More compelling than the zuck, bezos, musk, gates stories of being born rich and then becoming obscenely wealthy.
He’s always been that weird guy in a leather jacket trying to be cool but is a complete clown since the 2000’s. Forever the bullshit artist.
Ask any pc gamer from that era. Looking what “he cooked up” was overheating GPUs that needed to be “baked in the oven” to reflow the solder joints.
Guys never had an honest performance chart in his life. Even when he didn’t need to lie.
Guilty of stock manipulation, price fixing collusion, anti-competitive practices with developers. Guy believes his own hype.
He’s trumps bitch now.
People act like he saw crypto mining and AI coming miles away. It’s a lot of luck.
Same behavior we saw with musk early on.
How dare you mention Father Huang? Hail, O Huang!