India, Nov. 12 -- Colette Kress, Nvidia's longtime finance chief who has been named the company's interim CEO following Jensen Huang's resignation on Thursday, once described the chipmaker as the smallest company she had ever worked for.

In a 2022 interview with Fortune, Kress spoke about joining Nvidia in September 2013 and how the company had changed since then. "When I started at Nvidia, it was the smallest company that I'd ever worked for. It's gotten quite large, but the focus is on how do you think about the future and make sure we're ready for it to scale?" she said.

Kress also spoke about the challenges of managing a rapidly growing company, particularly the need to transform existing processes and digitise manual operations. Sh...