Nvidia Board Says No Formal Contact With CEO Candidates Yet

The board's pushback is really about controlling the succession narrative, not the search itself: denying formal contact while confirming no headhunter has even been chosen leaves the process at an early stage, and the FT report looks like a trial balloon the company wants to deflate. For a company whose identity is so tied to its departing founder, the signal that matters is governance discipline — an interim CFO running the firm while a search firm is still being vetted. Whether the board moves quickly to name a shortlist, or the Haas speculation resurfaces with confirmation, is the open question.