Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), opens new tab board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The board is preparing to meet as soon as Wednesday to determine his future, the report added.
It is nice to have the leadership held accountable.
I’d have preferred to have Jensen on trial for the economic crash everyone can see coming, or racketeering around every kind of silicon, but I’ll take someone so very publicly the face of a company getting their time in the court of public opinion; He’s been such a smug asshole for the past few years. And maybe he still gets put on trial too.
I could look these up, but I don’t KNOW them off the top of my head: CEO of Nestle, CEO of T-Mobile, CEO of Deloitte, etc. All companies I dislike, but their leaders aren’t in the news every fucking day. Even Bezos knows to shut the fuck up.
Zuck, Musk, Altman, Ellison, Huang; It seems that in Tech, there’s a hubris in leadership that feels that they embody the company. If they want to BE their companies, than they need to be accountable AS that company. But I would love a future where boards are accountable too.
Will NVidia be a decent company without Huang? Maybe… in like 2015, it was a company for people who played video games or made art. When they found higher profits in crypto and AI, they changed tracks. Are future leadership roles going to make a gaming company or an AI company? The latter is profitable right now at the cost of the future, so I don’t have high hopes.