> Can someone explain how the CEO sex life is relevant?

If it's true that he had the affair with the CCP spy or otherwise was encouraged to sell GPUs using loopholes that violate export bans, that would put him and NVDA into some hot water.

Investors do not like that and the implications for any rapid change in NVDA valuation would be immense.

Sure, the spy lady sex story is relevant but this is a different non-spy woman.

He slept with a subordinate employee, which is a fire-able offense in essentially any corporate environment I have ever worked in.

So? He is a shareholder and CEO having sex with another consenting adult, who and why anyone would fire him. AFAIK Musk had kids with his subordinates and became a trillionaire afterwards.

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For the same reason that, today, you're not considered a national security risk if you are openly gay, but you still are if you are closeted and trying to hide it. You can't easily blackmail an Elon type who has no shame and whose sex and drug addictions are part of his public reputation. Jensen presented himself as a faithful family man.

Also, if you cannot comprehend that there are issues of consent when it comes to having a sexual relationship with someone whose career you can destroy with no consequences, then I seriously hope you never get a management position.

Say your boss has two reports, you and someone else. You are the same gender as the someone else. They are sleeping with the someone else. They then promote the someone else while not promoting you. Now you have to ask yourself: do I need to have sex with the boss to get promoted? This type of situation is why most companies will fire you if you’re sleeping with someone you’re writing the performance reviews for. Also, all of Jensens reports now have a path to sue Nvidia for unfair treatment, he put the company at huge risk.

You can ingratiate yourself to your boss without having sex. I have seen people doing non-sexual favors to then successfully get promoted. Not saying that sex with subordinate is OK, but that you have to ban all kinds of personal favors.

Lmao. No, one of those is not like the other. At all. Sounds like someone wasn’t paying attention during the harassment training. Basically you have a right to a workspace free from sexual harassment. The behavior described above is either explicitly harassment or getting close enough to it for people to get uncomfortable (and you have a right to not be made uncomfortable due to inappropriate/sexual work situations.)

You don’t have a right to a workspace free of social discomfort or pressure though. Feeling some pressure to bring them a donut isn’t protected in the same way unless it’s becoming harassment.

I was not talking about bringing donuts. How about cooking especially for the boss and getting promoted as a result? This is not a sexual favor, does that mean it is a-ok? It should be banned because an employee is getting promoted not because of business outcomes they produced but because of their skills in kissing ass. Should other employees have to compete with this? If not, why not ban all personal favors, not just sexual ones?

That was the policy at the company he runs. It's hypocritical, if nothing else (and it is much else).

Are you really trying to use musk as an example of normal social behavior that we should accept (encourage…?)

I'm not defending Jensen, but it's kind of crazy. What do you do if you fall in love at work? Wait for your fiance to get a promotion so you're at the same career level?

> this is a different non-spy woman who is his subordinate.

FTFY

Yes, his actions carry potential shareholder risk and the board has a fiduciary duty to treat it as such. Nvidia (and Jensen) carry extra risk given their corporate structure which is flatter than most companies. Jensen has dozens of direct reports and is a cornerstone of the company. The recent changes to the stock price exemplify all of this.

Potential for blackmailing, messy divorce, corporate liability with regards to potential sexual harassment lawsuits, overall negative PR/image... and a dozen other reasons.

Yes, no one questions what he does with his wife (or used to...). That's sex life. Promiscuity and risky behaviors are that and have nothing to do with his sex life.

The latest one reported to him. If he wasn't the CEO, he'd be long gone.

Having an extramarital affair in and of itself isn't a fireable offence. Having sex with a subordinate is.

Shouldn't be if the other person is an adult and there were no high pressure tactics.

Having sex with a subordinate is the high pressure tactic.

No its not, quite literally. Can can come with some.

It is basically the difference between impropriety and appearance or possibility of impropriety

The problem is that you can't know. You can't read the minds of the people involved, so you can't know if there was pressure, coercion, or something else going on, and you can't be sure if either of them are telling the truth when they both insist it's fine and fully consensual.

So you prohibit it in all cases, punish in all cases, and then you don't have to wade into that mess.

Thats a crazy approach. By that standard no man should ever have sex with a weaker woman, because you cant rule out physical fear entirely.

Nobody should have sex with people whose livelihoods they have control over, it's not that crazy and its not a "men aren't allowed to flirt anymore" thing.

Married couples off and a half control over each other's livelihoods. Tremendous Leverage.

His other subordinates will wonder if they have to do the same to get promoted.

It's actually illegal in 16 states ....

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-16-states-where-its-illeg...

That doesn't necessarily make it a fireable offense, though.

Most companies have policies prohibiting employees from having relationships with subordinates. If he's going to violate company policy in this way, what's to say he isn't doing other shady things inside the business?

Regardless, the saying, "don't shit where you eat" exists for a reason. Huang engaging in this relationship shows profound poor judgment. Is it wise to have someone with such poor judgment running a company of Nvidia's scale and importance?

In an age of celebrity and wealth worship, such tidbits are entertainment food for the masses.

1. Legally this is highly problematic as it exposed Nvidia in a bunch of different ways. 2. A CEO who is so unconcerned about 1. may be engaging in other risky activities.

Morals are important. He could have used his position of power to do this. If you don't care about morals that's fine but don't get all tetchy when people who do have ideals care.

Let's say that we discover that he didnt use his position of power to advantage himself with Ms Powell. According to your reasoning, then it should be fine, right?

Sure. Or let's say that he did and it was.

Because the media says it is relevant, and the media want him out (or are aligned with someone who wants him out).

1. having sex with CEO of the company your are doing business with may affect the business itself, so you are not delivering best results for your own company

2. having sex with your own subordinate employee seems like potential abuse of power for starters and it is just calling for lawsuit, because while she can say today it was consensual, tomorrow she can say the other way

if he would be having sex with random girls he found in bars it would be certainly less problematic than having sex with people who are directly related to his company

btw. it also shows his character, if he was unfaithful once, he was unfaithful twice, do you really think these are only two cases and it ends just with his sex life?

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Because sleeping with someone at your company in secret while you are married can be incredibly destabilizing. Also, she reports to him. There is an inherent consent issue.

How is the CEO having a secret affair with somebody at his company not relevant to the company?