Are you saying a CEO needs to disclose everyone they have sex with to the board? Why? What other personal things are they expected to disclose?

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objclxt a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Are you saying a CEO needs to disclose everyone they have sex with to the board?

If they work under you, yes? It's written into every business conduct policy I've ever seen?

It should be really obvious why entering into a sexual relationship with someone who reports to you without disclosing it to your manager is bad. The CEO reports to the board, so they disclose it to them.

	▲	win311fwg 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is equally obvious why not reporting rape is bad, but many don't. It is easy to blame the victim when you are not they, but it is not so easy when you're actually in it and have to process the emotions. Being manipulated into having extramarital affairs is not the norm for 60-something married guys. A large segment of 60-something married guys are invisible to the world; often even to their own wife. It is not something people normally grow up around to see how to handle themselves.

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dingaling a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, if it puts the CEO or the company at jeopardy of blackmail or litigation.

As with security vetting interviews they don't necessarily care about the morality of the actions, just that they are wware and can prepare for the consequences.

There was a very simple choice the CEO could have made which would have avoided all this, anyway.

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tsunamifury a day ago | parent [-]

The level of delusion this displays is shocking even for hacker news normal user base who thinks humans are all robots.

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estearum a day ago | parent [-]

If you are the CEO of a publicly traded company you are essentially the property of the board. Not sure what’s hard to understand here. If you behave “non-robotically” in certain ways, you lose your job.

Shocking how many people think a board could do anything OTHER than firing him even for just what’s known today about fucking subordinates, never mind what the export control investigations find.

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tsunamifury 10 hours ago | parent [-]

What’s clear is you have no experience with this at all and are saying outright falsehoods confidently.

You are none of those things. All of reality if current CEOs today proves you wrong. Your take is so laughable it’s as if it was written by a child or a teenager.

	▲	estearum 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Current CEO” counterexamples being who, the Zucks and Musks of the world who have wildly aberrational corporate structures that protect them from their boards? Those are the exception, not the norm. The stock price plummeted upon announcement of the 2nd affair. Boards have an actual fiduciary duty to give a fuck.

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rsynnott 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not a personal thing. It’s a CEO shagging a subordinate. That’s misconduct pretty much everywhere.

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guax a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If the relationship was with a client and two subordinates employees. Kinda, it’s like a big HR issue. But just don’t do it in the first place.

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sensanaty 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If he cheated on his wife with people who weren't either subordinates or (at best) business partners, that'd be one thing.

Also I know this place is full of SV ghouls who only give a shit about what the stock tickers on their brokerages look like, but the amount of people defending infidelity is insane to me

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snayan a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's this thing called nuance my friend. Circumstances and expectations change dramatically when you're already dealing with a PR nightmare involving cheating. At that point, yes, the expectation is you're honest about other indiscretions.

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dlisboa a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In a US$4 trillion company, yes, disclose everything.

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skissane a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If a CEO is already involved in one public scandal, I think they are obliged to inform the board of any other potential scandals of the same kind.

Also, we don't know exactly what Huang said to the board. Maybe, they didn't explicitly ask if there were any other affairs, and he didn't answer the question they didn't explicitly ask. Maybe, they did ask, and he lied and falsely said this was the only one.

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mrguyorama 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your employee handbook absolutely tells you to do exactly that if the person you have sex with is your subordinate.

Aren't you supposed to get trained on this every year?