00:00NVIDIA's CEO has stepped down, and not on his own terms.
00:03Jensen Huang resigned from every post he held.
00:06The board appointed an interim CEO and a first-ever independent chair.
00:10For a company built on one man's vision for 33 years, that's a structural shock.
00:15It's Friday, November 13th.
00:17Let's look at a business story shaping corporate Korea.
00:20Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and led it for 33 years.
00:25Here's what the numbers show.
00:26NVIDIA extended roughly $90 billion across investment and partnership deals in just 16 months.
00:32Its backers, including CoreWeave, were funded partly by NVIDIA's own financing,
00:37which means a leadership change now reaches the whole AI supply chain.
00:41Analysts estimate that nearly 45% of planned American data center capacity
00:45faces new regulatory pressure after the Democratic midterm wins.
00:49That shift is pushing NVIDIA-linked capital toward Asia, including Korea.
00:53For Korean business leaders, the exposure is direct.
00:56Scott Group signed a letter of intent with NVIDIA worth more than $500 billion for AI
01:01infrastructure and next-generation memory.
01:03Naver's NVIDIA stake sits at 4.13% after a $1 billion investment.
01:08Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could also feel the pressure if tighter American chip export
01:14rules require full tracing of equipment shipments into China.
01:17So what does this mean for a CEO whose company depends on a single founder's relationships and
01:22judgment?
01:22Earlier, we said the leadership gap is a supply chain risk.
01:26Here's what that actually means for you.
01:28The question is no longer only who replaces the CEO, but how much of your strategy quietly
01:33rests on one person's network.
01:35Boards should map those dependencies now, not after the next headline.
01:39Decisions on export exposure, financing partners, and key account concentration belong on the agenda
01:45this quarter, what to watch, export exposure, financing partners, and key account concentration
01:50this quarter.
01:51That's today's AI Prism, CEO.
01:54This episode was produced with AI assistants based on Seoul Economic Daily Reporting.
01:59AI Prism is a Juan IFRA award-winning series.
02:02We'll be back tomorrow.