'Some things are eternal': Elon Musk paid tribute to Jensen Huang with a clip from a movie about Michael Jordan

Elon Musk and Jensen Huang shake hands. Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jensen Huang's departure from Nvidia prompted a tribute from the world's richest person.On X, Elon Musk reposted a two-minute clip from "Air," a 2023 movie about Michael Jordan, Nike, and the foundation of the Air Jordan brand. In it, Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, delivers a prophetic monologue trying to convince the young basketball player to sign a shoe deal."Once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're going to tear you back down," he says. "Can you summon the will to fight on, through all the pain, and rise again?"The video was first shared Thursday evening by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture-capital firm, which highlighted the quote, "You're going to be remembered forever because some things are eternal."Musk reshared this, simply adding, "Jensen."On Wednesday evening, when it was first reported that Nvidia's board was considering Huang's ouster, Musk also said he would like to hire him. Responding to a post pleading with him to hire the Nvidia founder, Musk wrote, "That would be an honor."Huang resigned from Nvidia on Thursday after several days of speculation. The company's share price dropped 4% on the day after sliding for much of the week. After founding Nvidia in 1993, Huang became one of the most influential figures in the AI boom as demand for his company's chips surged.Last Sunday, he apologized to staff, acknowledging that he had been "unfaithful" to his wife. The company's board also began an investigation into whether Huang was "the target of a foreign intelligence effort."It followed a New York Times report in late October that said American intelligence agencies found that the Nvidia CEO had a close relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and onetime executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company.On Wednesday, the Times reported that Huang had another extramarital affair with Nvidia's vice president of healthcare, Kimberly Powell. After Huang resigned, Reuters reported the former CEO had another affair with a second Nvidia employee. Read next Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Pete Syme is an aviation reporter for Business Insider, based in London.He writes about all things related to the industry, from aviation safety and CEO interviews to route reveals and airplane tours. Pete also uses data for industry analyses and to visualize breaking news events.Before joining Business Insider in 2022, he graduated with an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City, University of London, and a BA in English from the University of Exeter. Elon Musk AI