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Nvidia's board reportedly weighs firing CEO Jensen Huang over affair report

The reported board move would put leadership of one of the world's most valuable chipmakers in question.

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Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy on Sunday and kept his job running a $4 trillion company. By Wednesday night his own board was reportedly getting ready to fire him, over something way more ordinary than espionage. The New York Times dropped a second story. Five people who worked at Nvidia told the paper Jensen had been in a relationship with one of his own executives, a VP who reports directly to him. Two of them say someone at a San Jose hotel caught the two of them on video during Nvidia's big developer conference in March. Nvidia, Jensen and the executive haven't confirmed any of it, and the Times says it hasn't seen the video. Here's why that's worse than a spy, at least if you're sitting on his board. Go back and read what the board said on Sunday.…
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WSJ says board is preparing to “oust” Jensen. Who can legit take this job? Jensen has 60 direct reports. Find it hard to believe any one of them has the clout internally to manage all those egos (maybe interim CEO only). Outsider makes sense. Kurian, Garman? YOLO Lisa Su or Hock Tan? Eric Schmidt (zero honeypot risk because everyone knows).
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Bloomberg is now reporting that Nvidia's board is working with an outside firm to find CEO candidates to replace Jensen Huang. It's also "weighing the idea of naming a temporary chief while searching for a permanent one"
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Nvidia’s board could meet as soon as Wednesday to discuss ousting CEO Jensen Huang, the Wall Street Journal reports. The New York Times reports a second alleged affair, this time with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
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Jensen Huang started Nvidia at a Denny's in 1993 and built it into one of the biggest holdings in millions of Americans' 401(k)s. Now his own board is getting ready to fire him, maybe as soon as tonight, and the stock lost about $320 billion after hours on the report alone. That's close to what the entire company was worth at the end of 2022. And as far as anyone outside Nvidia knows, nobody has been lined up to replace him. Last night the worry was that this board was too close to Jensen to judge him. Then the NYT reported a second affair, this one with an executive who reported to him, and by the afternoon the same board was getting ready to show him the door. Most big companies can get through firing a CEO because somebody's already standing behind him. When McDonald's pushed out…
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