alt Hacker NewsMost people couldn’t care less about him having affairs. Sex is part of life, and affairs are pretty common.
The bigger issue is the conflict of interest stuff, but until that’s proven this is a horrible look for NVIDIA if they actually go through with it.
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> bigger issue is the conflict of interest stuff
The no-going-back issue is the corruption. Jensen corruptly quashed an investigation into Megaspeed. He then quite clearly expected Republicans in Congress to back him, which is why he only came clean when forced to.
There are now two allegations: that he had sex with a Chinese spy and that he had sex with a direct report.
The second one will get you fired just about anywhere.
Man what are you on about? Most CEOs are gone the moment affairs (especially those within the company) come to light.
Your common or garden affair? Not a big deal.
Affair of a CEO with a direct report and member of senior leadership? Kind of a big deal
Affair with a Chinese intelligence agent? Quite a big deal
As people said about the Huggingface incident: if you see one ant in your kitchen, the best estimate for the total number of ants actually present is well above one.
One affair was a mistake. Two, with a spy and an employee, are a real failure of responsibility -- and those are just the ones we know about.
The misconduct presents as a pattern of interrelated poor decisions and erodes trust. Just the basis of what we know already has serious economic consequences for the company and its stakeholders because it creates the appearance of impropriety which is what makes it fireable.
It’s not just the affair(s), it’s with who, and the subsequent appearance of conflict of interest, and the appearance of national security implications, and the appearance of lobbying the government on behalf of a foreign agent, and the appearance of enabling smuggling to get around trade sanctions, and the implications for employee morale in an unfair workplace, and and and…