If his personal security detained the person videoing them and offered them money to sign an NDA, it feels like something they had experience with. Could this just be the tip of the iceberg?
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> Both Mr. Huang and Ms. Powell are married to other people<p>Dumb language question: if Powell is married, why isn’t she referred to as Mrs. Powell in this article?
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.#Modern_usage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.#Modern_usage</a><p>“It is generally considered polite to address a woman by <i>Ms.</i> rather than <i>Mrs.</i>, unless the preference of the woman in question is clearly known. This is especially true in written communication, as dictated by professional etiquette. […] It is normally considered correct to address a woman as <i>Ms. [Lastname]</i>, regardless of her marital status.”
A married woman may not have taken her husband's name. Mrs. implies it while Ms. is neutral.
Ms. is the not-so-new address that is agnostic about the married status of the woman.<p>Many people find it demeaning to address women differently depending on whether or not they are married, especially when we don't do the same for men.
> It is generally considered polite to address a woman by Ms. rather than Mrs., unless the preference of the woman in question is clearly known. This is especially true in written communication, as dictated by professional etiquette.[1]<p>> [Ms. is] intended as a default form of address for women regardless of marital status. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs</a>.
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms</a>.
"Mrs." is falling out of style. I kind of get it. "Mistress" is a loaded word, if you think about it.
Ms. is just a safe neutral default.
Huang Holds 3.4% of Nvidia and has no dual-class voting rights. He can't prevent getting removed if the board thinks it's time.
He has to be finished as CEO even despite all the keyman risk right?
What difference is there between this and other tech CEOs who have had relationships with their staff? Musk and Gates come to mind
It's also very common for executives to get fired for affairs with direct reports. Kind of a cultural issue.
He is very hands on. He has more direct reports than other other tech CEOs. I think close to 40. Someone else stepping up or stepping in has things to do.<p>In addition Nvidia is incredibly tech-heavy company. You need another EE with experience with AI chip design and business. Just having good experienced businessman looking at simplified powerpoints before making decisions of technical issues is probably not enough.
Brin was absolutely next level.
> <i>What difference is there between this and other tech CEOs who have had relationships with their staff?</i><p>This? Honestly nothing. It’s bad, but as you point out, precedented among this Epstein cohort.
Musk isnt married.<p>Musk is also very "out" about it. Kinda like how it's okay to be gay in the CIA, as long as you're out. Being in the closet gets you fired because it makes you blackmailable.
I would think so. We can probably expect more to keep trickling out until he has no other choice but to resign. The spy thing was already bad enough. Now we find out he's hooking up with one of his direct reports? Seems like he runs a toxic workplace.
I knew this was going to happen. It's highly unlikely that a man cheats on his wife for the <i>first</i> time after age 60. This was just the first time he was outed for it.<p>I hated the misogynistic narrative that Huang was somehow helpless against a super-spy-seductress. Men can in fact control themselves, and it takes a lot of effort, you might even say willpower, to turn a business meeting into a bedroom encounter, especially when you're in the public eye. If Huang was targeted, it was because he was an easy target, a philanderer.
> <i>This was just the first time he was outed for it</i><p>For good reason. The level of fuck-up in sleeping with a Chinese spy and then having the gall to try and corruptly quash the investigations into it, coming clean only after Congress flips, is nuts.<p>I’m not convinced a good CEO can’t have affairs. I am convinced a liar and corrupter can’t.
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<i>>Men can in fact control themselves</i><p>Yeah but then what's the point of being one of the wealthiest and most influential men in the world, if you can't <i>'slay some puss'</i> when the mood hits you?<p>This is in fact very mild and tame behavior for someone who's a famous influential billionaire. Because the other ones went to an island where they ... you know ... did things to kids. So banging some milfy cougars while married is very milk toast by comparison.
Yes even if you are a billionaire women don't just spontaneously strip naked for you it takes a real effort to make it happen.
Not surprising at all. Many tech CEOs are like this; Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and so on. People don’t stop idolizing these people, they don’t even think that this is a problem.
counter example: Brian Krzanich (intel).<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/intel-ceo-resigns-after-probe-of-relationship-with-employee-idUSKBN1JH1VN/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/intel-ceo-resigns...</a>
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> People don’t stop idolizing these people, they don’t even think that this is a problem.<p>They'd go as far as to call it a virtue. Silicon Valley is the greatest domestic enemy this country has ever seen. They've built entire machines to protect, reward, and normalize antisocial activity.<p>lol, I called it perfectly even.
What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't sleep with whoever you want?<p>What even is the problem with that really?
pretending to be a family man while doing it.
This is a great question, just not in the way you meant it
Well one of them was a Chinese spy for starters. He's a compromised individual.
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Can someone explain how the CEO sex life is relevant? Is it because of the risk of a messy divorce that can both distract the CEO and eventually force voting share transfer since he’s also a shareholder? This isn’t really like the Chinese spy mistress thing after all.<p>Edit: honestly, this one feels like a moralistic freak out more than anything. Who cares about sex with the non-spy lady?
Yes, his actions carry potential shareholder risk and the board has a fiduciary duty to treat it as such. Nvidia (and Jensen) carry extra risk given their corporate structure which is flatter than most companies. Jensen has dozens of direct reports and is a cornerstone of the company. The recent changes to the stock price exemplify all of this.
> Can someone explain how the CEO sex life is relevant?<p>If it's true that he had the affair with the CCP spy or otherwise was encouraged to sell GPUs using loopholes that violate export bans, that would put him and NVDA into some hot water.<p>Investors do not like that and the implications for any rapid change in NVDA valuation would be immense.
Yes, no one questions what he does with his wife (or used to...). That's sex life. Promiscuity and risky behaviors are that and have nothing to do with his sex life.
The latest one reported to him. If he wasn't the CEO, he'd be long gone.
Potential for blackmailing, messy divorce, corporate liability with regards to potential sexual harassment lawsuits, overall negative PR/image... and a dozen other reasons.
Looks to me like he has a target on his back, and people are just throwing stuff at it now. This could have come out years ago, if it is true. No reason not to. None, not in this day and age.<p>So it's all opportunistic, at this point.
nvda stock is on sale.
Of course. Find allegations which will stick, short, leak the allegations.<p>Then Investor lawsuit kick off, more allegations, a big drop, profit. Then "oh well", "can't prove it".<p>This was all immensely quick, putting together an investor's lawsuit this fast, other allegations waiting...<p>It's almost as if someone had the lawsuit ready to go.
If he were French, no one would have blinked.
Maybe I'm too old and stupid but I'm less concerned knowing that the guy has a few mistresses. It makes it less likely that any of these ladies are tugging on his heart strings for the keys to his kingdom. Nvidia security is probably all over these affairs monitoring his communications, personal devices...
Related: Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459703">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459703</a>
Gotta get me a sharp looking leather jacket - that must be what's getting him all this action.
At this point there's a good chance there are much more than just two affairs.
If you spot two ants in your kitchen, the average number of ants is probably higher than two
i commented somewhere, it will hardly be the only one. I never knew somebody that cheated just once.
He's trying to be a Japanese businessman from the 1980s.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dsuke_Uno#Economics" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dsuke_Uno#Economics</a><p><pre><code> Uno was highly criticized in public not for having a Geisha mistress, as it was a traditional leisure practice expected of politicians and wealthy men but instead due to relating his poor financial habits in the Japanese Diet as compared and paralleled to the ungenerosity towards his former Geisha mistress.</code></pre>
tbh if jensen is that prolific i wouldnt be shocked if lori huang knows and has like, made her peace with it.
I'm not condoning cheating at all, but if you're a billionaire with endless connections around the world, why wouldn't you just go to an escort if you can't keep it in your pants.<p>I know things are different when you're only thinking with your johnson but jeez, showing up with the same woman in front of the media many times and even displaying affection in front of a camera (there is pictures of them with light body contact afaik), what did he think was going to happen?
I assumed he’d survive the one affair. A second one? Now I’m not so sure.
The jacket, it's all because of that shiny leather jacket...
Now we have to live through this nonsense for 10 years in the news.<p>He should have retired and done a handover last month and left at his peak to a beach villa on Maui...
Purely accident that the news dribbles out like that. Nothing to see, moving on.<p>(If he's done this without his wife's full consent, he's certainly a despicable human, but that doesn't change that this looks like a really nicely orchestrated PR hit job)
In the end a Chinese model was a risk to national security...
What a massive scandal. It is over.
He's kind of like 'scum bag lite' and now barely qualifies to join the rest of the mega wealthy and powerfull in there conspicuos imunity from censure.
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