Jensen Huang told graduates to become experts in using AI, and the internet turned the advice into an Oreo joke. Huang’s line was that every college student should come out of school an expert in AI, and someone rewrote it as a snack executive insisting everyone eat 50 Oreos a day.
The advice came from a March 2026 sit-down on the Lex Fridman Podcast, where Huang told graduates to come out of school as experts in using AI. Given two job candidates, he said he’d hire the one who was an expert in using AI over the one with no clue what it is, and he ran that same test through accounting, marketing, law, sales, and customer service.
On March 24, a user quote-posted the clip rewritten as “CEO OF OREO: ‘I would advise that everyone eat 50 Oreos a day. Maybe even 100.’”
The joke stuck because it reads like corporate self-interest played completely straight, a chip maker telling everyone to become dependent on chips.
There is no CEO of Oreo and no such quote. Oreo is a Mondelez brand run by chair and CEO Dirk Van de Put, whose actual public line is that the company’s portfolio “needs to evolve towards healthier snacks.”
The timing landed harder than the meme intended. On November 12, 2026, Nvidia announced that Huang, 63, who co-founded the company in 1993 and ran it ever since, had resigned as president, CEO, and a director, effective immediately.
CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO. The release thanks him and doesn’t say why he left.