alt Hacker NewsCan 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.
Edit: honestly, this one feels like a moralistic freak out more than anything. Who cares about sex with the non-spy lady?
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> Can someone explain how the CEO sex life is relevant?
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.
Investors do not like that and the implications for any rapid change in NVDA valuation would be immense.
Most companies have policies prohibiting employees from having relationships with subordinates. If he's going to violate company policy in this way, what's to say he isn't doing other shady things inside the business?
Regardless, the saying, "don't shit where you eat" exists for a reason. Huang engaging in this relationship shows profound poor judgment. Is it wise to have someone with such poor judgment running a company of Nvidia's scale and importance?
Having an extramarital affair in and of itself isn't a fireable offence. Having sex with a subordinate is.
Because the media says it is relevant, and the media want him out (or are aligned with someone who wants him out).
Morals are important. He could have used his position of power to do this. If you don't care about morals that's fine but don't get all tetchy when people who do have ideals care.
The latest one reported to him. If he wasn't the CEO, he'd be long gone.
1. Legally this is highly problematic as it exposed Nvidia in a bunch of different ways. 2. A CEO who is so unconcerned about 1. may be engaging in other risky activities.
In an age of celebrity and wealth worship, such tidbits are entertainment/outrage food for the masses.
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.
Anti AI freaks + competitors.
Potential for blackmailing, messy divorce, corporate liability with regards to potential sexual harassment lawsuits, overall negative PR/image... and a dozen other reasons.
1. having sex with CEO of the company your are doing business with may affect the business itself, so you are not delivering best results for your own company
2. having sex with your own subordinate employee seems like potential abuse of power for starters and it is just calling for lawsuit, because while she can say today it was consensual, tomorrow she can say the other way
if he would be having sex with random girls he found in bars it would be certainly less problematic than having sex with people who are directly related to his company
btw. it also shows his character, if he was unfaithful once, he was unfaithful twice, do you really think these are only two cases and it ends just with his sex life?
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.