If the relationship was with a client and two subordinates employees. Kinda, it’s like a big HR issue. But just don’t do it in the first place.

Yes, if it puts the CEO or the company at jeopardy of blackmail or litigation.

As with security vetting interviews they don't necessarily care about the morality of the actions, just that they are wware and can prepare for the consequences.

There was a very simple choice the CEO could have made which would have avoided all this, anyway.

The level of delusion this displays is shocking even for hacker news normal user base who thinks humans are all robots.

If you are the CEO of a publicly traded company you are essentially the property of the board. Not sure what’s hard to understand here. If you behave “non-robotically” in certain ways, you lose your job.

Shocking how many people think a board could do anything OTHER than firing him even for just what’s known today about fucking subordinates, never mind what the export control investigations find.

What’s clear is you have no experience with this at all and are saying outright falsehoods confidently.

You are none of those things. All of reality if current CEOs today proves you wrong. Your take is so laughable it’s as if it was written by a child or a teenager.

If a CEO is already involved in one public scandal, I think they are obliged to inform the board of any other potential scandals of the same kind.

Also, we don't know exactly what Huang said to the board. Maybe, they didn't explicitly ask if there were any other affairs, and he didn't answer the question they didn't explicitly ask. Maybe, they did ask, and he lied and falsely said this was the only one.

In a US$4 trillion company, yes, disclose everything.

There's this thing called nuance my friend. Circumstances and expectations change dramatically when you're already dealing with a PR nightmare involving cheating. At that point, yes, the expectation is you're honest about other indiscretions.

> Are you saying a CEO needs to disclose everyone they have sex with to the board?

If they work under you, yes? It's written into every business conduct policy I've ever seen?

It should be really obvious why entering into a sexual relationship with someone who reports to you without disclosing it to your manager is bad. The CEO reports to the board, so they disclose it to them.

It is equally obvious why not reporting rape is bad, but many don't. It is easy to blame the victim when you are not they, but it is not so easy when you're actually in it and have to process the emotions. Being manipulated into having extramarital affairs is not the norm for 60-something married guys. It is not something people normally learn how to handle.

It’s not a personal thing. It’s a CEO shagging a subordinate. That’s misconduct pretty much everywhere.

If he cheated on his wife with people who weren't either subordinates or (at best) business partners, that'd be one thing.

Also I know this place is full of SV ghouls who only give a shit about what the stock tickers on their brokerages look like, but the amount of people defending infidelity is insane to me

Your employee handbook absolutely tells you to do exactly that if the person you have sex with is your subordinate.

Aren't you supposed to get trained on this every year?