If by "this" you mean the affair with Powell, probably not much difference between Jensen Huang's affair with Powell and affairs that Gates, Bezos, and Brin have reportedly had.

But the extramarital affair with Alice Huang is quite different. NYTimes reports that Alice Huang is a Chinese spy, with whom Jensen Huang may have conspired to break the law, selling advanced NVIDIA chips to China. That affair puts the whole company at extreme legal risk. Gates, Bezos, and Brin have nothing like this on their records that I'm aware of.

As I write this, the top post on HN speculates that this is "the tip of the iceberg," indicating that there at least may be more affairs yet to be uncovered, and, plausibly, Jensen Huang may have committed even more enormous mistakes with serious consequences for NVIDIA.

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.

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.

It's also very common for executives to get fired for affairs with direct reports. Kind of a cultural issue.

Brin was absolutely next level.

Bill Gates was pushed out https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/microsoft-board-decided-...

I remember Mark Hurd, who was hired by Oracle after HP ran him out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hurd

Rest in peace.

In the case of Musk, the amount of equity they own in the company. In the case of Gates, the fact that it didn't come out when he was still an executive.

Musk isnt married.

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.