The affair claims and spies don't actually matter. Jensen had nvidia smuggling chips to china. All that matters now is who knew or should have known. It is pretty crazy that the CFO took over when its impossible for a CFO to not know 20% of revenue is coming from smuggling gpus to china.
I don't think ends until the entire c-suite and board are all in jail. If jensen really has 60 direct reports, then we need to get 60 jail cells ready.
People need to stop pretending that the richest and best paid people in these companies have some kind of deniability, they do not.
Is that the case ?
Have you seen corporate crimes in the US? No way an entire c suite goes to prison. One person, maybe. Two or three tops.
> People need to stop pretending that the richest and best paid people in these companies have some kind of deniability, they do not.
They have money and status. How did Elon escape that bs when he said he’d take Tesla private with “funding secured”? If you or I committed such blatant market manipulation, we’d have serious consequences. It’s different for the mega wealthy (which is the primary problem).
It's a feature of reality. That's why all this chatter about taking billionaires down a peg or two is ultimately fruitless. All you're doing is aiding someone else's power play -- who will then have the excess privilege and power that rankles the masses. But there is nothing to be done, it has always been that way, and always will. Those who think communism or any other governmental structure actually solves this problem, is deluded; it just transfers the power somewhere else. Putin is richer than Bill Gates.
Spying being the operative word, it's very easy e.g. to plant listening devices, or drugs, or threaten with blackmail...
Being around him in an intimate way is gonna leak lots of stuff that’s useful for others.
I dunno if you’ve ever looked at your laptop in a hotel room with a partner around, but it’s pretty leaky.
And you might say that he’s a smart guy, he would be careful, he’s too canny to leak stuff. But then remember that he’s having an affair with a major customer and another with a direct report. He has already thrown caution to the wind.
The entire country of taiwan is at risk due to jensen. He sold out taiwan and the US to china.
The administration could be complicit in treason, if substantiated by evidence in a court.
Plus, as others have pointed out, the Nvidia board seems to have been preparing to back him up and ride out the story after his first carefully written apology/statement. But that changed after news of the second affair broke which means he may not have been candid with them and made the breach of trust unsalvageable.
Unfair or fair doesn't really enter into it, it's not his company anymore, he only owns ≈4% of it. Nvidia board/shareholders would have wanted to keep him running things if at all possible given his track record.
Evidently some straw broke the camel's back, but we don't know for certain whatever it's something that's been known publicly so far. It's high profile news because of Nvidia's size and prominence in the AI industry but he's far from the only founder to be pushed out of the company they founded because of a personal scandal.
The political argument doesn't really make sense to me considering Trump bent over backwards to defend him, right up until minutes before he resigned. And the admin seemingly avoided intervening for months after it became known to U.S. intelligence, even adding him back to the China trip after he was originally left off the roster.
The board backed him after "sleeping with a spy" came out.
The board did not back him when, days later, "sleeping with a staff member who reports to him" came out.
Zuckerberg & Musk were more visionary on this front and they can never be fired from the companies they created.
So future founders who plan to take companies public
All this while he was in shower thinking how great life is, and what a stud he looks on a leather jacket?...She must have had all confidential designs for the next 10 years of NVIDIA roadmap including the confidential financial partnerships and circular deals...
While currently living in Beijing, they dont do statues there, but she might get her own photo in the entrance hall of the Chinese Ministry of State Security.