Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by allears on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:26PM
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It isn't so much the morality of it. CEOs as a group aren't known for excessive scruples. It's the piss-poor judgment he exhibited. Even if everything was consensual, this is a blatant violation of corporate standards and inevitably diminishes his reputation and therefore his effectiveness at his job. He's not only borked his own career, he's lost a ton of money for everyone connected with Nvidia. The question really is, why was he so stupid to think that he wouldn't get caught or that it wouldn't matter?
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by skeledrew on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:42AM
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It's his personal life. As long as he didn't coerce anyone or otherwise cause harm, then there's no problem here. Why should corporate care about what he does when he isn't making them money? Why should anyone at all care? If anything, this is solely between him and his wife, and he didn't marry Nvidia.
Anyway, of anything it's the company that's losing out, not him. He's rich enough to relive a few more lives without ever working, and he's at retirement age. Meanwhile Nvidia now has to handle not having his leadership.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by dghlsakjg on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:39PM
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Because it wasn't his personal life.
Having an affair with a spy/$8b customer who has targeted you and may make the company complicit in committing actual crimes is very much a problem for the board.
Having multiple affairs with employees that open the company up to reputational and legal liability is very much a problem for the board.
In other words, he was doing this while he was making them money in a way that can affect the bottom line, therefore it is - literally - their business.