Furious investor here. Lol. But I'm just as furious with Huang as with the board for firing him.

But it seems especially goofy because it appears it's only about the non-Chinese affairs, since the timeline suggests he was in the clear until the second one came out.

Does anyone here think that sleeping with a billionaire CEO is something that these successful, executive-level women were actually coerced into? That's the fear run-of-the-mill "boss sleeping with subordinates" harassment suits are (usually justifiably) about. That the subordinate was either pressured into the arrangement in the first place, or that she at some point would have wished to stop, but would credibly fear retaliation and thus be coerced to continue.

I'm trying to imagine concretely what that could have possibly been like. Somehow I don't think he could be that desperate to be with a specific woman who didn't want him, that he would threaten an executive to get her into bed, nor to be so obsessed with keeping the affair going that he would even think of threatening revenge against someone who, by definition, obviously had the ability to ruin his life just by opening her mouth. The women held all the power over him, as evidenced by the fact that they just used that power to end his career.

Exactly my thoughts. You put a typical corporate type ahead of NVIDIA and we'd manage to see AMD get ahead of them in datacenters.

That's bad leadership.

look at you over here all WOOO CHINA NATIONSTATE SUPERPOWERS WOOO RESOURCES WOO

it took a vagina. it literally just took a vagina.

How are you puzzled that people point out the radical hypocrisy?

Musk is 'below the bar'.

Jensen is 'just at the bar' for this maybe slightly above.

I'm not condoning, I'm contextualizing.

He didn't do anything wrong or illegal (that we know of), other than breach of trust with his wife.

This media around this is crazy and slanderous.

All of the press is screaming about 'affair with spy and possibly secrets' , which is very unfair.

She's not a 'spy' - she's a hustler looking to make money by reselling GPUs, and she's 'talking to the Chinese government' as literally they are all compelled to do.

Are Jensen and Elon 'spies' because they talk to the State Dept. and US Gov all the time about goings on in China?

In an ideal world - we would have to contend with Jensen's actions, but I'm doubtful he'd be nerfed for personal foibles, which are not material or public concern.

Assuming that he did not hand over key secrets or information, which I highly doubt and which there are no specific allegations, this is a media / meme wave, completely out of context.

The only saving grace in this, is that the Nvidia board may be friendly to him, in which case, maybe they 'know something' that is not public, and this is the 'nice way out' but even then I'm doubtful.

That's true but only slightly true - and the evidence is that rappers can get away with absolutely horrific behaviour that other musicians cannot 'because the culture'. Kaney just set records for his concerts after releasing 'Hail Hitler' album for gosh sakes.

Elon has normalized his bad behaviour and he controls the board - there's no 'smoke that can make a fire' around him as long as the companies are doing ok. He also aggressively threatens people and very few will speak out against him.

There might be a tinge of racism with the 'honey pot' stuff, and 'chinese spy' has hints of orientalism as well. The headlines are really leaning in to the 'Asian Sex Spy' stuff which is terrible. And I've see posts with rich guys and their Asian wives - not nice.

Fair point, but I don't think it's only partially the case.

There are no allegations against Nvidia there.

It's absurd to suggest that Nvidia would need to secretly ship a handful of chips to some sketchy actor when Nvidia chips have a a mile a line long for sales.

Jensen can sell his inventory 10x over. You have to have buying power just to get a hold of them.

Anything is possible but it would be extra stupid for one of the smartest people in the world to risk everything for literally no reason at all.