Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang
by dofm on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:39PM
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> I, as a shareholder, do not care if the CEO is having an affair so long as the business is not affected.
This is actually a pretty challenging standard, because the moment the CEO tries to gaslight their spouse/partner that it's not an affair, they are already bringing the company into a deception.
This might seem a silly place to draw the line, but consider what the escalations are — the CEO's PA being asked to mislead the spouse, inventing a meeting he was at, inventing an away trip, etc. etc.; they always mount up. There is no executive who has an affair who doesn't pretend they are at work, and there's no pretence that doesn't ultimately put an employee in a difficult position.
It's entirely reasonable for a board to say that if the CEO or the chairman is having an affair it is their business.
And this is before you even consider that the affair is likely to be an employee.
Now, if a CEO at Huang's level of geopolitical importance is having an affair, it's the government's business, because it makes him a blackmail and espionage target.
This is actually a pretty challenging standard, because the moment the CEO tries to gaslight their spouse/partner that it's not an affair, they are already bringing the company into a deception.
This might seem a silly place to draw the line, but consider what the escalations are — the CEO's PA being asked to mislead the spouse, inventing a meeting he was at, inventing an away trip, etc. etc.; they always mount up. There is no executive who has an affair who doesn't pretend they are at work, and there's no pretence that doesn't ultimately put an employee in a difficult position.
It's entirely reasonable for a board to say that if the CEO or the chairman is having an affair it is their business.
And this is before you even consider that the affair is likely to be an employee.
Now, if a CEO at Huang's level of geopolitical importance is having an affair, it's the government's business, because it makes him a blackmail and espionage target.
So yeah, it matters.