I highly doubt that's "proven". He's handling it like a good leader so far. And by "it" I mean a mistake that literally every human on Earth could easily make. Everyone is susceptible to matters of the heart.
Not because he had an affair (who cares, really, and hardly uncommon), but because he had an affair that endangered the company, and in some respects our country.
Functionally, it's not different from "left an unlocked phone at a bar". A mistake anyone could make, but, when you're paid what he's paid, that type of mistake is the thing you're paid not to make.
So he got some sex. That doesn't mean he traded company secrets for it or exposed everything during pillow talk.
That might have been her play but doesn't mean she succeeded.
I'm kind of tired of the morality police in 2026 now. Come on.
Humans always lie, there was some data showing it’s about 0.75-1.5ish per day (I don’t remember exact thresholds but you can think of it like one per day).
It might actually sustain civilized communication and behaviour, e.g a small lie to not hurt someone’s feelings.
Of course this level of deception in a marriage is worse, but it’s naive to think anyone is entirely honest.
_Technically_ it didn't end his relationship yet. But I do get your point, about the 'severity of the lie'. But honestly, this is a personal thing not a work thing. One doesn't have to carry over to the other, people _thankfully_ behave different at home than at work.
I'm all for having CEOs take responsibility. But unless it comes out that he actually leaked anything of substance than it really doesn't matter that he cheated on his wife from the business perspective.
One could certainly question his judgment. As CEO of Nvidia, he should have recognized that his position made him an exceptionally valuable target for foreign intelligence operations
Usually when emotions are involved, people don’t think rationally. I don’t think he should go around his life 24/7 on alert that anyone showing sexual or romantic interest is out to get him.
It could still be an issue if his wife divorces him, takes a significant portion of his stock and decides to sell it off. The NVIDIA board would have to consider that possibility.
There was always that risk, whether or not he had an affair. People get divorced for all kinds of reasons and you have no idea how she felt about their marriage before she learned of the affair. You also do not know how she feels about the affair, she might have some kind of private (i.e. none of your business) arrangement with him because she sees enough value in keeping the marriage intact.
Also keep in mind that divorce is not some formulaic thing. Most divorces are settled out of court and a hypothetical settlement could have terms that allow him to keep those shares in exchange for something else (e.g. maybe he agrees to pay her the cash value or agrees to a large and permanent alimony structure). I doubt the Nvidia board is worried about this issue considering the other, more immediate problems here (like the fact that his mistress is a Chinese spy).
Everyone always assumes wives are naive wilting flowers, but for all we know she has her own private life on the side. It's really none of our business.
The worst she can do is sell them off. And at something like 1.75% she would own that is not likely to damage them seriously. Besides firing him or not, he already has the stock so it would accomplish nothing.
10 minutes alone with his laptop and a well crafted malicious USB is enough.
illicit visit with a few nice gifts, all bugged.
her whole role may have been simply to isolate where is and his laptop is inside of a hotel or building so that another team can slip in and grab it or clone it.
he could have kept his mouth 100% shut and been on full opsec the whole time and still gotten played by CCP intelligence.
and at this level of the game he should fuckin know better.
So what are you saying? People can no longer do anything once they are the CEO of a company? At some point you need acknowledge these are people too, not machines.
Absurd, internet-only opinion. He's led Nvidia to a 4 trillion market cap and then cheated on his wife? Is it shitty, yea. Does it have literally anything to do with business? no
> Does it have literally anything to do with business?
Yes. The cheating is only a small part of it, although it does confirm he's a piece of trash and thereby throws into question his capability as a leader. More seriously, he potentially colluded with this person, an agent of a foreign government, to bypass export restrictions. The investigation that will follow exposes Nvidia very badly.
Yes exactly this. Also don't forget the mechanics of the deal for the export-capable chips for China, that last I read they had way under-delivered on so far, so that's a sensitive and potentially major issue.
Yes, and as the CEO of the company he did something really stupid that exposed that company to massive regulatory risk. And in so doing showed his entire ass. You don't have to care about the morality or legality of it to see that his fuckup has put the company in jeopardy. It was his only job to do literally the opposite of that. This incident means he's incompetent.
People arguing his one and only job is to get the stock price up. Yet he involved his personal life which put the company at risk, and the stock dropped accordingly. So by the only measure of his success, he just made a massive blunder that can't be swept under the rug and opens the company up to length investigations.
A sane investor with zero morals or ethics would be angry here, not rushing to his defense. If nothing else than for the (potentially temporary) stock dip over stupidity. One man was not responsible for the AI boom, nvidia got lucky yet again (as they did with bitcoin before this, and the gaming boom before that).
It could still be an issue if his wife divorces him, takes a significant portion of his stock and decides to sell it off. The NVIDIA board would have to consider that possibility.
"He didn't voluntarily give it up. It was part of a settlement. "
That's what I meant with my earlier comment. You wrote, "Does his board investigate him for his many egregious acts.", his demotion resulted from the Board's and the SEC's investigation.
The amount of Cubans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans Panamanians, etc… who had literally nothing and no resources to their name, who walked or hitched to the United States or Canada to back breaking labor to put their kids into high school is staggering.
Similarly for pretty much every cab driver and worker in Dubai, who is from Bangladesh or India or Kuala Lumpur or whatever…
In fact, I knew a very successful Honduran restaurant owner in Houston, who was deported twice from the U.S. between 1980-2000 finally got his citizenship on the third trip.
That’s how it worked for everyone coming to the United States. You might get a fever and die on a ship sailing from England. Irish and Italian settlers were treated harshly and worked in factories as children. People came from China to California to help build the railroads. This is just a recency bias.
There is no evidence the repo creator is trying to earn anyone's trust. This could be a personal project that they have no intention to try and "sell" to anyone. They may not be trying to earn the public trust and have no interest if anyone besides them uses it.
I don't know how it is currently, but you used to have to make GitHub repos public to access the full feature set (i.e. things like CI runners) on free accounts. Some of us just got in the habit of making things public
I have no doubt there's foreign bot armies amplifying these things, but foreign bot armies understand they're most effective when the amplify real sentiments.
And the anti-data center stuff is a very, very real sentiment.
Are we really shocked when their entire IPO was predicated on AI the companies primary future revenue and American voters just told the market they're not gonna make that easy?
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