Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports

Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by nicerice on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:06PM (#50460913)

This doesn't seem like a healthy move for the company's longevity. What else did Jensen do? It's a given that companies that size will be targets for espionage and leak information even without it. This one mistake is enough to end all the value he has-and would continue to add to nvidia? Feels like we're missing information about the whole thing.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by mattoxic on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:09PM (#50460944)

What else did Jensen do?

There needs to be an else?

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by ptero on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:36PM (#50461234)

Uhm ... yes? Screwing around is not a crime. That is something Huang should settle with his family. His wife may divorce of forgive him, but a divorce is not something that the company should fire anyone over.

The fact that he slept with a suspected Chinese spy is not a crime either. Now, if he has enabled industrial espionage, helped circumvent sanctions or broke other laws it is a different matter. But marital infidelity seems insufficient as a cause to fire a CEO of a highly successful company.

I did not follow the story much, so might be missing some important information.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by hoppp on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:42PM (#50461319)

He also sold chips worth billions to her "mistress" and the chips probably went to China. So he did circumvent sanctions. Thats the only crime I recognise in this matter.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by vessenes on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:49PM (#50461396)

Allegedly. We will no doubt learn all about this from national security council operations this year. But we don’t know what happened or what he did or did not know right now.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by sys_64738 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:54PM (#50461453)

These are Trump political sanction. NVDA is a multinational company out to maximize profits for shareholder. Selling to China should not be on any sanctions list. China is not the enemy of anything in my book.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:54PM (#50461457)

> The fact that he slept with a suspected Chinese spy is not a crime either.

He's not being prosecuted; the legality or not of his actions is meaningless.

> His wife may divorce

Which could be awkward for NVDA if there is no prenup as I've seen reported.

> But marital infidelity seems insufficient as a cause to fire a CEO

If that infidelity opens you up to blackmail, it definitely gets up there as a fireable reason.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:11PM (#50461636)

Screwing around is not a crime, but he also isn't under threat of prison time. He's under threat of losing his job, because he has shown that his judgement cannot be trusted (he had two illicit affairs, one of which was with a subordinate). It's perfectly reasonable to fire someone from a leadership position for having bad judgement.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by bijowo1676 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:50PM (#50461990)

thats rich, coming from an Epstein Island nation...

where are those epstein files, by the way ?

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by kkotak on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:40PM (#50461287)

Alleged relationship with a sub-ordinate.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by sys_64738 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:51PM (#50461431)

God. Who cares.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by _ink_ on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:10PM (#50460961)

We cannot be sure that we know the full story behind it, nor that we ever will.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by paulpauper on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:17PM (#50461039)

That seems like a stretch. companies have faced far worse. this is not Enron or something

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by alskdfqlkj on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:21PM (#50461073)

A news story was just released with allegations that he had an affair with one of his reports as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/technology/jensen-huang-n...

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by fermentation on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:23PM (#50461086)

why on earth would this be an okay thing? could you follow a leader you couldn't trust hasn't sold all of your IP to competitors?

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by danny_codes on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:27PM (#50461143)

I don't believe in IP protections, so yes, easily.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by KerrAvon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:36PM (#50461239)

When you say this in a job interview it tends to be a fairly short job interview.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by markus_zhang on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:48AM (#50466382)

Apparently we all lie a lot during the interviews.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by jayd16 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:48PM (#50461395)

What if I told you selling IP to someone else is the opposite of it being free to use.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by leptons on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:38PM (#50461267)

It worked for trump.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by sys_64738 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:50PM (#50461413)

So he had an affair with a woman. Who cares. He's human. He's not a spy. This whole charade to dethrone the founder of the biggest company in the world is a joke. I hope the NVDA board are not stupid or they should all resign.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by trollbridge on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:06PM (#50462144)

As is the pearl clutching about an "affair", as if it's not going on with lots of other executives that we simply don't know about.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by stonogo on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:25PM (#50461117)

Jensen's been lobbying hard for years to get the government to allow selling high-end GPUs to China. It's his position that this will discourage local competitors from getting big enough to meaningfully threaten nVidia's dominance.

While there's nothing inherently incorrect about this position, the affair with an alleged spy means that he, personally and uniquely, cannot advocate for this policy without seeming compromised. Ironically, if nVidia agrees with him, they have to fire him.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by MattDaEskimo on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:27PM (#50461136)

The public face of one of the most important companies in the USA has been compromised.

He risked his future, the value of his company and shareholders to commit adultery.

What else is he doing? How can his word be trusted? Who else is influencing him? Do people have blackmail from such encounters?

All fair questions to ask now.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by madaxe_again on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:13AM (#50466625)

Indeed. We must also ask:

Does he have a secret bunker full of preschoolers?

Is he working for the lizard people?

Do nvidia GPUs exist?

With what we know, these are all fair questions to ask now.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by MattDaEskimo on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:12AM (#50467468)

In such a time of the Epstein Files a better question is when did society become so immature to joke about such things like hoarding children in a thread regarding adultery?

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by madaxe_again on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:04AM (#50468538)

Well, we just don’t know, do we. Maybe he ate pizza once. Who knows.

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by ibaikov on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:38PM (#50461264)

Plot twist: what if this was the China’s goal? Maybe they sent the spy and then leaked the story (or waited for it to leak) to remove Jensen?

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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by viklove on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:48PM (#50461391)

> This doesn't seem like a healthy move for the company's longevity.

Who cares? Consequences have actions, and hopefully that's not just based on which choice is gonna make someone the most money.

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