Nvidia’s new interim CEO, Colette Kress, has a direct line to Israel. In a 2023 interview with the Israeli business outlet Globes, she said her day starts with meetings with Nvidia’s Israeli executives: “My day starts with Israel meetings, and only then continues to California.”

Kress takes over after Jensen Huang’s resignation. Israel is one of Nvidia’s largest bases outside the United States. About 12 percent of its employees, roughly 3,200 people, work there, according to Globes.

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    2 hours ago

    too bad we can’t vote with our wallets because they’re just mainly running their circular economy now. well our wallets probably still pay for subsidies but we just don’t vote

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      Voting with your wallet never worked, because most people get few or no votes, and billionaires get billions of votes

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    This is an odd article, I agree 100% fuck israel, however all this is reporting is that this lady talks to execs in their israeli hq. Odd, because it’s framing her as a direct line (which is her job duties I imagine), when it’s really a symptom of a bigger systemic problem. Fuck israel and fuck nvidia basically.

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    First, fuck Israel.

    Having said that, timezones exist. Its 2 pm in Israel v 8am in California.

    She has to start with their Israel office before they close for the day.

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        Israel purposefully put themselves to the east of all western countries so they could have first dibs on the markets and be the earliest investor calls. /s

        Fuck Israel though. /not s

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    Jensen supported Palantir significantly. Israel/her influence was already strong at Nvidia. Maybe Lebanon/Iran should be suspicious if they are taken off GPU sanctions list, though. (yes, that is a pager reference).