Everybody wants a Jensen. The leather jacket, the keynote fireworks, the trillion-dollar hype. Teradata doesn't need a rock star. It needs someone who shows up, makes the hard calls and sticks with the company through the ugly parts. Steve skipped his own raise and put the money into AI. That's sacrifice, not a photo op. Where I come from, we call that magnifying your calling. I was raised to put my shoulder to the wheel, keep a year's supply, and value faith, family and loyalty over flash. Leaders who endure to the end are the ones worth following. Steady over showy. All is well.
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@ca But steve is short very very short.
@ax Not Steve, not leadership, just someone who can read an earnings release. But I love that your theory is "anyone who disagrees with me must be the CEO." That's not detective work, it's a coping mechanism. And nobody asked a company to choose between Steve and Jensen. You made that up so you'd have something to win.
@a3 You came to a post about leadership and the best you had was his height. That's not criticism, that's recess. "Textbook failure" from someone whose whole argument fits on a playground is rich. A company that wiped out its long-term debt and is putting real money into AI doesn't need a hype man. It needs grown-ups, which explains why you're not one of the people it's waiting on.
SM is a fine leader, he's leading us thru a transformation which is always difficult. I've been supporting vantage for close to 8 years but am moving towards the new AI efforts.
Lots of disgruntled people on this board who haven't done their jobs projecting onto others. Jensen cheated on his wife and erased billions in shareholder value, SM has reduced debts and turned Teradata into a turn around story
This is why I have no doubt Engineer/Kneepads is actually Steve.
Not even the biggest troll would try to make the argument that Steve is anywhere remotely close to Jensen, let alone better. Not a single company on earth would choose Steve over Jensen.
Nope, Steve is no Jensen. If Steve was caught with his pants down the way Jensen was nobody would notice because hes so short.
The day Steve gets canned is the day Teradata employees break out champagne and start partying in the hallways.
Teradata is a textbook example of failure while Nvidia is a textbook example of success. Theres a reason Nvidia employees want Jensen back.