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RM Ricky Mulvey On The Indicator (Planet Money)

“He was the face of the AI economy and also sort of a central banker for it.”

The Indicator (Planet Money) · Money & Markets · November 2026

“He was the face of the AI economy and also sort of a central banker for it.” — Ricky Mulvey, The Indicator (Planet Money)

Context

Asked where NVIDIA goes from here, Ricky Mulvey notes that the CFO is now interim CEO and earnings come next week, then sums up the role Jensen Huang is leaving.

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Transcript

The Indicator (Planet Money) Around 07:37 into the episode
Ricky Mulvey

…Donald Trump's support to stay. Trump gave Jensen an emotional support call earlier this week, just asking to see if he was doing okay. But then two employees who worked at the company told the New York Times that there's this video of the second affair, although reporters did not view that video.

Adrienne Ma

Drama. So, I mean, it sounds like this news of the second affair was just kind of the nail in the coffin. So where does NVIDIA go from here?

Ricky Mulvey

So chief financial officer Colette Kress is in as interim CEO. NVIDIA also reports earnings next week. But Jensen Wong, he was the face of the AI economy and also sort of a central banker for it.

Waylon Wong

Yeah, I mean, and this is one of these examples, a rare example, I would say, of kind of a really prominent CEO that actually gets booted. You know, like a lot of CEOs, because they're deemed so important to the company, they kind of stick around no matter what happens. So I don't know. I just…

Ricky Mulvey

Yeah. And he also does not have voting control of NVIDIA.

Waylon Wong

Oh, really? Yes.

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