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In business continuity, we aim to identify Single Points of Failures (SPOF). These are critical people, systems or suppliers that are essential to your organisation and there is only one of them. And your vulnerability is increased if they are hard to replace!
It’s probably difficult to come up with a bigger SPOF than Jensen Huang, former CEO of NVIDIA!
Not only was he the driver for the development of the building block of the booming AI industry, but he also aggressively built a web of business relationships with the Magnificent Seven and was largely responsible for the success of the most valuable company on the planet.
And now this man, through his indiscretions, has lost his job of 30 years and caused a loss of value in NVIDIA stock of US$1.7 Trillion (5 October to 12 November).
Not only, but also, he faces investigations from his former employer and the FBI.
And this morning Friday 13, Microsoft (and others) are suffering serious outages. Anyone into superstition?