He's the chief architect of this. I hope the ones he's hurt along the way have support.

He’s also the chief architect of one of the most influential companies in the world. How many people has he positively affected?

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He is changing the course of history, maybe even more impactful on a global scale than colonial conflict

I'm dying to know how other tech CEOs rank on your "historical figures ordered by importance" list. Like, do you think Steve Jobs was more or less important then Harriet Tubman?

Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.

Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.

AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.

Telephony, yes. The services that are making massive impact now are dependent on smartphones.

Bro... get a grip. He's one dude whose jobs is to boosts stock prices, the company will be fine.

Screw the stock price. If you looked into the history of how the company survived you know the company is now Intel. The US has probably lost yet another industry to China. Wonder if the Taiwan investments into the US fabs will now slow because a lot of them were relationship based...thanks to Jensen.

I hope I am wrong but I am starting to think the US left is about to walk into a historical economic collapse that they are inevitably increasing the chances of by 'doing the right thing'.

Really shows you how out of touch the tech world is with humanity and what average people care about.

You don't seem to understand how the economy and competitive forces work, nor how hierarchies of competency function and work.

I suspect you hypocritically have and will continue to benefit from his work that he started as their CEO 33 years ago.

Or maybe they understand better than you.

I hope this kicks the legs out from under the "circular financing"[0] that has enabled slop to permeate seemingly everything good about computing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting

I just shed a tear thinking of how much shareholder value he created over the course of his career.

I'll be sure to tell that to my kids while I put them to bed today.

I wasn't referencing shareholder value - but it sounds like you have an Overton window dismissing the value that AI CPUs have provided-facilitated, if you weren't able to understand what I was referencing holistically; so you seem to have a bias.

I think you have a bias yourself, GPUs are cool and etc., but the man didn't discover fire, penicillin or the meaning of life.

If he was Ghandi the scandals would have been far more sensationalist

> How many people has he positively affected?

What's your definition? People he sold a GPU to at extortionate markups?

> How many people has he positively affected?

I honestly don't care. It's not a balance sheet to me.

What’s the revenue target I need to hit to get a free pass for sanctions avoidance? What other rules, regulations and laws do you think he should be absolved from considering NVIDIAs quarterly profits?

And how many has his influential company affected negatively?

That isn't the way the world - or most morality systems - work.

A surgeon who saves a thousand lives doesn't get a pass for the one murder they commit.

If the person who eventually cures cancer also happens to be a rapist, do you remember their name with awe or pity?

The sort of Felicific Calculus practiced by the "Effective" Altruists is a tawdry trick designed to excuse despicable behaviour.

And yet you've a convicted felon who vacationed on Epstein island sitting at the highest office in the land, or even in the world.

He cheated on his wife. More than once. Fuck him, let him be stressed.

Ah. So you know their relationship? Whether it's an 'open marriage' or not? Whether the wife cheated first, or not? You're of course, in the know, so you can judge, yes?

He could have done a wrong thing. Or the affair could have been perfectly fine with his wife. Or the marriage could have been on the rocks for years, and they both agreed to not divorce, with all the drama and media attention, and just live their own lives.

But you know all this is true, or not true.

Yes?

If it was an open marriage, why would his first statement have been an apology to his wife and family? I don't see any reason to start assuming it was actually fine. In any case the affair becoming public in such a way would still be hurting them - the media attention you're speaking about. Much worse than a divorce, right?

Because the public sentiment towards open marriages is even more negative than towards infidelity?

> the institution itself in a country that has strong beliefs in it.

It could be argued much of that is performative. The most vocal group for this in America voted for someone who is well known to break oaths.

Absolutely it is performative. Writing a public "apology" for spending time with another person in their free time is also performative. Nobody actually cares what you do with your life. They aren't thinking about you at all. But when in performance, the performance has rules of engagement.

he wouldn't have publicly apologized if all of that was "perfectly fine" with his wife

He wrote himself a press release saying he was unfaithful and because of his actions he hurt his family... it sounds pretty clear that was noy a consensual non-monogamous relationship. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company

I agree with your sentiment in general: we should not make assumptions about the parameters of others' relationships.

But in this case, Huang himself explicitly mentioned the hurt that he caused his family. I don't think it gets much clearer than this.

    I owe my family and all of you an apology.

    I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and 
    our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am 
    deeply sorry.

    Throughout my life, my family has given me love and 
    support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, 
    I let them down and damaged the life we built together. 
    I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I 
    caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.

    To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology 
    cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal 
    and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-jensen-huang-email-bo...

We don't know how much of that is "what public expects" in such situation vs what is actually true. Even if his wife doesn't care it would be wise to keep this apology style.

This is just some basic PR letter, no one from his family actually cares about corporate theatrics

Might wanna google the term “affair”

People don't need facts when they just want an excuse to attack someone from the outgroup.

He publicly stated he broke his wife’s trust, buddy.

If it wasn’t an affair they would just say that

Who says she's didn't know or even if she cares?

I think the "formal apology letter" wouldn't have existed if this was some sort of open-relationship situation. In that case, Huang violated an important agreement, and cannot be trusted to not violate other important agreements.

He’s forced to even if she were a full poly lesbian, because they both live in The United States.

Well you could read the letter he wrote but why when you can just ask empty edgy questions to farm karma.

Framing a pretty basic question as "edgy" is pretty silly.

The world as a whole is pretty conservative, people like to project the happily married couple image regardless of reality of the relationship.

it's the empty part that makes it edgy.

> I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.

I don't understand what compels people to make up scenarios to defend people who have come out and said the opposite.

Not defending, but it's also clear that the statement is meaningless.

Probably more meaningful then something you a third-party/bot just made up and shared on a message board though...

> Not defending

You are, in fact, defending.

Yes, I'm completely sure his wife never ever cheated on him, lol

That wouldn't justify anything.

LMAO this guy feeling bad about a billionaire who cheated on his wife. Is he projecting muc

No, I just think honesty is cool.

Hopefully his wife has support. Jensen gets to reap what he sowed.

I'm sure the billionaire will be fine.

> I hope whatever he's going through he's got support.

You don't get to cheat on your wife, company and country and get support lmao, what a strange things to say.

Which country? The country of Taiwan where he’s from and where all his products are made? Or the USA whose diva in chief has had a fit about selling said chips to the country who produces all the USA’s stuff?

Some very harsh words being thrown around for Jensen’s very human failings. Try walking in his shoes, or at least having some degree of understanding and empathy.

Try walking in his shoes? He has an easier life than 99% of people lol. People always quick to jump in to defend the shittiest behaviour, maybe have some empathy for his wife?

Well conversely you’re labelling and attacking what you consider the shittiest behaviour, when you only have a sliver of detail. Try pondering what it’s like to create a $5trillion company leading the 21st century’s biggest boom, and consider what weird and unthought of and irresistible demands that might come with. The guy started in Denny’s.

Won't someone please stop and think about the poor guy who will face the terrible consequence of never having to work again and still having enough money so that the next 10 generations of his family will never have to work either.

All of this sounds easier than everyone’s life. He has no consequences possible in his life. So many people, even in western countries, live cheque to cheque. Why would I feel bad for someone who chose to do what he did? Irresistible demands? Not cheating on your wife?

99% is too low. He has an easier life than anyone. There's maybe tens of people who have an even easier life.

Crazy talk. I’m sitting on a beach in Italy right now. My life couldn’t be easier. The stress and pressure of running a company like Nvidia is off the charts.

And you’re a bot so as if you’d know.

> I’m sitting on a beach in Italy right now. My life couldn’t be easier.

You're choosing to argue with strangers on the Internet while on said beach. Your life could be easier.

Huang is choosing to make his life easier by resigning, and has the resources to do the beach thing - at essentially infinite luxury - indefinitely.

Pleaze. Even relaxing on the beach one can read the news and gauge sentiment for their investments. And you’re right, maybe I’ll see Jensen hanging out in Taormina next week. Good place to hide actually.

Nah, not a bot. I do delete my account here after a week or after I get a few hundred karma though. I hate this site, but I haven't found a spot better for the sorts of things that come through. So I abandon my account once I find myself checking karma, only to make a new one once I see insane shit being posted. In this case the insane shit was people white knighting a billionaire serial cheater who sold products illegally and ripped off consumers while simultaneously fucking a direct report.

Really shows you how much we need to kneecap these CEOs for societal good. The idea that they are hard workers is laughable. Everyone working in retail or a restaurant or in a call center is a harder worker than any executive on the planet.

> Try walking in his shoes…

Chances are I could just sell them and live for a year or ten off it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/leather-jacket-worn-by-nvidi...

Which illustrates the gap between his life's challenges and everyone else's nicely, IMO.

He's a US citizen living in the west coast and the CEO of a company's who's headquarter is also there.

> Some very harsh words

Who gives a fuck, every executive is a sociopath, no feelings for parasites

Jensen doesn’t give off sociopath vibes. He really doesn’t. There’s a big difference between being sociopathic or psychopathic and having one’s ego inflated by overwhelming success. Try seeing what it is next time you’re gazing in the mirror.

Who the fuck goes out of his way to lick a CEO's boots on a public forum?

As I already intimated - it’s only really sociopaths or psychopathic narcissists who trade in such extreme black and white thinking as you seem to be doing. Save the f bombs on the public forum too.

Ok i'll keep that in mind next time I cheat on my wife with two separate women and smuggle restricted hardware to my country's nemesis

> the f bombs

Are you 8?

Sir this is a family friendly website where we uphold men who cheat on their wives and fall for spies because they turned $1 into $40

Actions do have consequences and unlike his family, he made those decisions. They also are affect by them despite never having a choice.

He put out the hit on himself when he stepped out.

I think with personal wealth in the billions he'll be just fine.

Money is not that helpful when a 40 year old intimate relationship dissolves. Being able to buy things does little for memories that can no longer be shared.

womp womp. Shoulda thought of that before he went and got himself some strange

If only there was something he could have done to not do it

Such a bizarre take to me. Yes, it's a quick fall.. but can you really trust him after he's been caught having an affair with a supposed Chinese spy, _and_ potentially another one with an employee? There is zero chance any normal business would keep a CEO after this...

Normally this would never come to light, the admin has known about the Chinese agent since 2025. He misstepped politically.

If there were 20 more affairs I would not be surprised.

Yet the choose to publish this one throwing Powell under the bus. Did she deserve that as well?

It is as much of a mistake to anthropomorphize billionaires as it is to anthropomorphize LLMs. People with resources greater than nations are .001% human and the rest is closer to a lovecraftian god. Consider that he can shatter markets or send massive trading companies under simply by having an affair. The empathy is misplaced.

He actually built something amazing. That is why he should be thanked and left alone, not thrown under the bus.

So much hate for him, it is sad.

He quickly threw a small but original market under the bus without hesitation. I'm sure every man, woman, and child without a 5090 is chuckling

He jumped in front of that bus himself. If the investigation turns out he was definitely orchestrating defying export controls then it's more like he drove one bus into another. He deserves every bit of embarrassment and ridicule no matter how impressive his business accomplishments were up to now.

The mistake is to direct your empathy only one way

Absolutely not. The value of empathy is not "have empathy because empathy is good", it is in the pro-social outcomes. Empathy is wasted, and counterproductive, on the non-empathetic, especially on the powerful and destructive. It is a peace treaty, much like tolerance.

Are you saying Jensen had godlike sex with that Chinese spy?

I think the external event maybe moved quickly, but I read there was an internal event as well.

I’m sorry but this shows wildly inappropriate decision making. Say what you will about honeypots (I received specialized “warning” early in my career, but I recognize that is abnormal), but we all are forced through training every single year about how relationships at work, especially with imbalanced power dynamics, are inappropriate and should not take place.

I don’t care about the infidelity, but he represents the company at its pinnacle. He had to go.

I'm sorry, but a hit job he conducted on himself?

You can agree or disagree with his position on exporting to China being good/bad for nVidia or the US. But actively working closely with a company (Megaspeed) where, from a thousand miles away, it was clear that their primary goal was to get around and/or bend US export controls... that's a bad idea. Megaspeed was clearly working for the direct benefit of the Chinese government.

Add onto that having an extramarital affair with the representative of that company? Come on, it's extremely likely she's an agent of China, and if not it's a gigantic business risk.

Then, on top of that, you have to remember that he's married. A divorce results in half of his shares going to his wife, who would then have a grudge, probably not in the best interests of the comapny.

To call it a hit job is absurd. He is smart enough to know his actions could have severe consequences. He took a massive risk on behalf of millions for his own momentary pleasure.

Not a single inch of empathy for his wife and family, nor the misled investors and staff.

I'll tell you what's absurd: Believing the Chinese government sent a spy to honeypot Huang into providing chips to Chinese companies, while everything about their public policy has been designed to prevent exactly that.

The Chinese government wants Chinese companies to buy Chinese chips.

Indeed it seems absurd, but maybe the Chinese government sent a spy to honeypot Huang into destroying (indirectly) its own company instead - knowing how western culture react to such events.

Mission accomplished

Do you find it implausible that there is any reason the Chinese government would want to spy on NVidia?

I think you're misunderstanding - I think the suggestion of a hit job is because of the timing of all this coming out.

His affairs have been going on for months or years, so much so that various places knew about it, did nothing to stop it, and didn't leak it.

I think it's a fair question to ask "why is this all coming out together now?" Nobody seems to know. In the absence of any other explanation, suggesting "hit job" isn't absurd.

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My guess would be it having to do with Jensen's friend in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue recently losing a ton of power.

Absolutely, virtually none of this information is new. The chips being sold to China and the suspicious romantic partners were known at least 2 years ago. Perhaps "confirmation" that the one was a spy is new, but that shouldn't have much of an effect since the stakes were already such that such risks should have been taken seriously without confirmation.

It's only the beginning of his problems. Congress hearings and an investor class action lawsuit are being prepared.

now the entitled vultures will come to pick him to bits

There is no support for people like him, CEOs of such big companies, or even any respectful CEO. People would only use him. That's human nature for you.

Won’t someone please think of the poor tech CEO

Just like Jensen built nvidia from scratch, he did build this situation from scratch too.

maybe he shouldn't have been putting his dick in people other than where it was supposed to be?

I mean yes, he shouldn't be hounded, but if he'd kept it in his pants, he could have avoided all this nastiness.

I think finding humanity in our villains can help us gain perspective so I’d agree on your first point.

However let’s hold both thoughts at once, this was no hit job. Nvidia was forced to act quickly to mitigate business and legal risks. The eventual fallout they’ll face is still not fully known.

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Sympathy for the guy having multiple affairs, including with a direct report, including with a spy and credible allegations of doing an end-run about valid export controls imposed by his country?

I have a lot more sympathy for the victims, not the arsonist!

For real, are these bot comments?

The public fall may seem quick but from my read of the timelines this has been ongoing for a lot longer.

The idea his fall is related to his affair also seems more like an attempt to minimise the fact that NVIDIA have been covertly selling to China when they were not supposed to.

> I have to imagine that Jensen is under an enormous amount of stress right now. I hope whatever he's going through he's got support.

Jensen, if you are reading this and need support you can try looking into BetterHelp. You can even get 20% off using certain partner links. No one should have to go through the stress of loosing their job from Chineese spies alone and with BetterHelp you're just one click away from your very own personal therapist.

Imagine not having a full picture and defending someone going around sanctions for profit. Wild stuff.

You’re that sympathetic for a billionare having multiple affairs?

Are you serious?

"I sure hope the billionaires are doing okay"

All humans have the same feelings and emotions.

I for one hope all humans are ok, regardless of their status.

> I hope whatever he's going through he's got support.

He's worth like $140 billion. $70 billion if he gets divorced. He'll be fine.