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Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

cosmojg wrote: post #12
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #9

“Uncle” has a specific meaning in English and so this title is misleading.

Nah, both my English-speaking and Italian-speaking family use "uncle" and "aunt" with a similar amount of ambiguity. It's a term of respect for elder family members, extended or otherwise.

That's a bad analogy that's missing context. I have a very close friend of my dad's that I called "Uncle Bob" when growing up. That's very different than reading a news article that says "Famous Person X is Famous Person Y's uncle" - in that context I would expect a very specific set of possible relationships.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by ant6n »

dustincoates wrote: post #29
throwawayadvsec wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US are a younger country and it's full of immigrants/children of immigrants. Most of the money here is old money. There are dozens of implicit rules. In France having a teacher as a parent is a better indicator of whether you'll get into a top school than being rich. Because you have to know all the tricks in the book to get anywhere. From my POV getting into Ivy League seems as simple as getting a high SAT, appl…

As an immigrant to France who wants my kids to succeed… how do I learn these paths?

Move to Quebec.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by agloe_dreams »

bakuninsbart wrote: post #23
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…

I think a major difference, at least to my country, Germany, is that in the US the university you graduate from has an outsized influence on your career potential, especially when it comes to senior positions at large companies. On the contrary, here in Germany these positions are usually filled through either familial connections or company-internal mentorships. Board members and C-suite often have been with the com…

A key element in the US is that VC is a poison. With growth at all costs as a priority, many US companies are focused on getting whomever is willing to push sales over all else, this generally requires a name with a history of success so most internal hires are out. Also, most of these companies won't exist in 20 years to have someone whom has been there for 20 years.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by synergy20 »

More than that, people tied to Taiwan have always been super influential about semiconductor industry at large, from Cadence to Nvidia/AMD/Mediatek to TSMC, they're doing really well.

EE is hard to take on for kids born in US, life is comfortable why bother? so immigrants and their kids filled the vacancy, could this be a possible reason of it?

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by tapoxi »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #30
whimsicalism wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which Sony CEO are you referring to? I think the Nissan case is a bit of an exception and if anything demonstrates how reluctant the Japanese are to have major Japanese multinationals run by someone not Japanese.

Howard Stringer and Andrew House were head honchos at Sony.

House was Sony Computer Entertainment (PlayStation) which is based in San Mateo.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by gambiting »

doytch wrote: post #7
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…

Language probably plays a non-insignificant role. I'd hazard a guess that more Indians and Chinese (the nationalities that are fairly well-represented in US leadership positions) are learning English than German, Polish or Slovak.

Literally everyone under 30 years old in Poland or Germany will speak English(with a varying degree of proficiency, but English lessons are mandatory at school from the age of 7 until 18). No idea about Slovakia but I can only assume it's similar.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by soligern »

automatic6131 wrote: post #50
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…

>something that never/rarely happens here in Europe The English PM is the son of Indian immigrants though

66 of the top 500 unicorns in the US have Indian founders. I don’t think you would see that in Europe.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by agloe_dreams »

aikinai wrote: post #47

Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, is identical twins with George Kurian, CEO of NetApp.

Have we considered just having one guy run 10 different companies that will sometimes cross each other's path? Saves on the number of kids you need that are related.

Re: Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO

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Post by roland35 »

bakuninsbart wrote: post #23
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #2

The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f... Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "n…

I think a major difference, at least to my country, Germany, is that in the US the university you graduate from has an outsized influence on your career potential, especially when it comes to senior positions at large companies. On the contrary, here in Germany these positions are usually filled through either familial connections or company-internal mentorships. Board members and C-suite often have been with the com…

I haven't seen this trend in US tech at least. Most other engineers I've worked with have gone to good state schools but very few have gone to top ivy or similar (eg MIT/Stanford).

I bet you're correct with other industries such as investment banking or finance though.

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