Jay Puri

Speculation has already begun on external and internal candidates who could replace the man synonymous with the AI boom, including Cress.

Now, other internal names that have been floated in the media include Michael Kagan, current chief technology officer who founded supercomputer networking company, Mellanox, which was acquired by Nvidia in 2020, and Jay Puri, former executive vice president of Worldwide Fielder Operations, who retired in July.

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, has also been floated, but analysts have noted he lacks broad operational experience.

Externally, the information floated the name Lisa Su, who runs NVIDIA's most credible rival, Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, and TechCrunch brought up billionaire and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

And they say, oh, you know, we've looked at some candidates.

One of those candidates was a guy named Jay Puri.

He just retired.

He's in the 70s, so I don't think it's going to be him.

Then there's the flow that isn't really selling at all.

Take Jay Puri, who runs worldwide field operations at Nvidia.

Per the filings, he sold about $55 million of stock back in March.

Since June, the only thing on his record is about 37,000 shares withheld to cover tax, worth $7.7 million.