To The Moon

🌟🌟🌟Watching a legend fall in real time hits differently when your own savings are tied to their name.  For years, investing in $NVIDIA(NVDA)$  felt like betting on an unstoppable force.  Jensen Huang wasn't just a CEO in a black leather jacket.  He was the architect of the AI revolution, the steady hand guiding a USD 4 Trillion empire through every market storm.  We didn't just buy the stock.  We bought the myth of the infallible founder.

Then, within days, the unthinkable happened.  Scandals broke, national security questions swirled and the man who built NVIDIA from a Denny's booth stepped down, sending the stock tumbling and wiping out billions in market value overnight.  Watching my portfolio bleed red wasn't just financially painful, it felt like a personal wake up call.

The Most Valuable Lesson I Took Way from the Fallout of Jensen Huang:

Never confuse a brilliant leader with an indestructible company.

When you fall in love with a visionary founder, it is easy to ignore single CEO risk.  You stop looking at the balance sheet and start worshipping the person at the podium.  Look around the market today and you see 2 completely different approaches to leadership risk:

The Succession Blueprint - $Apple(AAPL)$  

Apple showed us how multi year planning protects shareholder wealth.  Steve Jobs carefully mentored Tim Cook to take over in 2011.  Tim Cook followed that exact playbook by passing the baton to long time hardware leader John Ternus.  The company is bigger than any one person.

The Key Person Trap - Nvidia and $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  

Tesla's valuation is tied almost entirely to Elon Musk's personal brand and vision, with no clear public successor.  Nvidia faced that exact trap when Jensen Huang resigned without a groomed heir apparent in place.

While Nvidia will certainly suffer in the short term, its massive moat in AI chips, CUDA ecosystem and data center Infrastructure makes it far too valuable to fade away.  

Still the volatility proved that betting my hard earned cash on one executive is a gamble I no longer want to take.

That is why I prefer to invest in $Invesco PHLX Semiconductor ETF(SOXQ)$ instead of chasing individual chip heroes.

Why I Invest in SOXQ ETF:

SOXQ invests in 30 of the largest US listed equities of companies engaged in the semiconductor business.  These include products such as memory chips, microprocessors, integrated circuits and related equipment in various types of electronics etc.

Built in Diversification:

Rather than relying on one CEO, SOXQ holds the 30 largest US listed semiconductor companies.  The top holdings include:

NVIDIA, $Broadcom(AVGO)$  Micron, Texas I struments, AMD, Analog Devices, Qualcomm, TSMC,  KLA Corp and ASML.

If one company stumbles, its rivals in the ETF often capture the market share.

Low Cost:

With a small expense ratio of just 0.19%, SOXQ keeps the fees low while capturing the entire AI and chip supply chain.  This translates to USD 19 a year per USD 10,000 invested.

Proven Resilience:

Even through the 2026 tech pullback, SOXQ remains up 42.63% year to date, easily outperforming Nvidia's single stock slide.

Concluding Thoughts:

Great visionaries spark revolution but durable businesses and smart portfolios are built to outlast any single person.  By shifting from single stock hero worship to broad sector ETFs like SOXQ, you don't have to guess which CEO will survive the next headline.  You get to own the entire engine of the AI revolution and let long term growth do the heavy lifting.

Because at the end of the day, the only affair I want to have is with my long term portfolio.

As Warren Buffett once said:

"I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.  Because sooner or later, one will".

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