Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang runs the chipmaker through an unusually flat management structure, with around 60 senior staff reporting directly to him. The Financial Times has highlighted how the arrangement keeps the founder closely involved in operations and strategic direction.
Huang described his direct staff as 60 people, then clarified that the number was higher, in a March 23 interview with Lex Fridman. He said he avoids one-to-one meetings, bringing specialists together to work through problems collectively.
Those discussions span memory, processors, networking, software and other parts of Nvidia’s computing systems. Huang calls the approach “extreme co-design”: decisions about one component are considered alongside their implications for the wider system, including power and cooling.
The model predates the current debate over his leadership. In a February 2025 conversation with CNBC’s Becky Quick, Huang said shared reasoning helps information move quickly and empowers employees to make decisions. He described transparency and first-principles thinking as central to Nvidia’s culture.
That structure also provides context for the succession risks discussed by Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon. While others could manage daily operations, Rasgon questioned whether a replacement could reproduce Huang’s long-term strategic vision. His assessment concerns a potential leadership transition, rather than an announced reorganization.
