In what way did this affect nvidia's products?

How is that relevant? You could claim he was a victim of a honeypot, but an affair with a report is an abuse of power. Any regular employee would be terminated within a day. A CEO in his position will take a little more than a day.

I used to be a frequent visitor to /r/nvidia ~15 years ago until ~5 years ago. Around 2020 it turned increasingly into a sort of stock price cult. The discussions were corrupted with people who felt like they had a duty to try to help increase the stock price. I'm seeing inklings of that in these sorts of threads. How are these people so unaware of standard corporate policy? This is like the stereotypical case that's presented by HR to new hires.

It's an abuse of power, but it's also an excuse to get him out. Fortune 100 boards don't make decisions of this financial magnitude because of ethical considerations. Some political wind must have shifted against Jensen.

You mean like Sergey Brin was over Amanda Rosenberg? Oh wait, he wasn't.

1. That was 2014, prior to #MeToo, etc. This is less tolerated now (which is good, in my opinion).

2. Huang does not have the same control over the board that Brin and Page had. That doesn't make it "better", but it does affect the outcome.

Even putting that aside, it affected the share price, so I don’t see why the board wouldn’t care.

So what ? Does it make him a bad boss ?

Yes.

...yes... maybe effective at business, but definitely a bad boss to have relationships with your directs

I can overlook a lot for a bad boss that makes me a multi-millionaire possibly ten times over.

Sleeping with a direct report makes you a bad boss yeah

... yes? Obviously?