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title: "Colette Kress may take a more conservative approach than Jensen Huang; sources say she sometimes pushed back on his riskier deals like backstopping OpenAI (Phoebe Liu/The Information)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/colette-kress-may-take-a-more-conservative-approach-than-jensen-huang-cc42fffe
published: 2026-11-12T16:45:33.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Colette Kress may take a more conservative approach than Jensen Huang; sources say she sometimes pushed back on his riskier deals like backstopping OpenAI (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/colette-kress-may-take-a-more-conservative-approach-than-jensen-huang-cc42fffe

Phoebe Liu / The Information : Colette Kress may take a more conservative approach than Jensen Huang; sources say she sometimes pushed back on his riskier deals like backstopping OpenAI — Nvidia's appointment Thursday of its longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim CEO will force the finance veteran …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261112/p43#a261112p43)

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