“The more direct reports the CEO has, the less layers are in the company,” Huang said<\/a> at The New York Times DealBook Summit in 2023. “It allows us to keep information fluid, allows us to make sure that everyone is empowered by information.”<\/p>\n Nvidia’s workforce<\/a> has grown massively in recent years thanks to the AI boom, and Huang’s notoriously fierce work ethic has helped shape its hardcore culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s unknown whether Huang’s smaller fleet of direct reports signals a shift away from the horizontal structure.<\/p>\n Tech leaders have varying views on direct reports. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said he prefers not to have too many and instead runs the social media giant with a “core army” of 30 lieutenants \u2014not all of whom he manages directly. CEO Elon Musk has 19 direct reports<\/a> at Tesla as of August, and five at xAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n A Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n Huang also said at Stanford that he doesn’t schedule one-on-one meetings with direct reports so that information can spread more easily throughout the organization \u2014 unless a meeting is requested, in which case he’ll “drop everything.”<\/p>\n Here is the list of Huang’s direct reports, according to the list Business Insider obtained. These include senior and executive vice presidents of key organizations at Nvidia.<\/p>\n Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at gweiss@businessinsider.com<\/a> or Signal at @geoffweiss.25. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here’s our guide to sharing information securely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has 36 direct reports as of October, according to an internal list obtained by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,270,126436,10529,126431,126437,126432,126434,126435,4321,126438,12325,84293,11412,126433,4477],"class_list":{"0":"post-225384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-insider","10":"tag-ceo-jensen-huang","11":"tag-com","12":"tag-direct-report","13":"tag-gweissbusinessinsider","14":"tag-huang","15":"tag-information-fluid","16":"tag-internal-list","17":"tag-nvidia","18":"tag-nvidia-org-chart","19":"tag-organization","20":"tag-other-tech-leader","21":"tag-stanford","22":"tag-valuable-company","23":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759569492_968_placeholder.png\")
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