The outside pressure is probably the investigations, including the securities lawsuit, that have already started. The coordinated media campaign (and, in addition, likely some phone calls about what else is coming down the pipe) is the way to tell the board "hey by the way, this guy is going down", we don't know exactly where "down" is yet, but I doubt this whole thing just blows over with an apology email about an affair. That isn't really what it's about, and now it isn't even just about a Chinese honeypot (I think the second affair is much worse morally speaking).

I'm also personally nowhere near as sympathetic to Jensen just due to the fact that I think he was a good CEO for a long time as some here are. I don't think he should remain on, regardless of the damage to NVIDIA. I have lost respect for him over this because it shows me he is morally weak and easily tempted. Two attributes I revile in a leader. His good performance up until now was nice, but I think upholding moral standards is to me more important than upholding my 401k.

I think you can't fully seperate your personal life from your private life as a CEO of a major publicly traded company. Attempting to do so is a mistake. Your morality is something that will be questioned and held to much higher standards because of the responsibility and wealth you've been given. Yes, being wealthy makes it easier to be a hedonist perhaps, but the public is not more trusting of hedonists simply because they are wealthy and so "of course they started doing hedonist things". If anything, that's a good reason to fire wealthy CEOs as liabilities of the moral sort when it becomes clear they can't not use their power for hedonism, especially in the apparently quite public way that Jensen was doing it here.

I recognize, that in the US, we largely view corporations and CEOs as amoral entities, but I think that's not universal and not something that was a good idea in the first place. There has to be some good end to what you are doing as a company for me to think you should have a right to exist. I'm not a pure 100% turbo max capitalist in disposition. Similarly with CEOs, he may have had the end of making his investors and himself a lot of money, but the means by which he took to achieve that end are now under question and will be investigated, and likey turn up more stuff, hence the preempting in the media and probably tipping off the board that more is going to come of it.

So, I'm in favor of his ouster. Especially because of the second affair, which is even more concerning than the Chinese honeypot one from my personal moral perspective on elite sexuality and my opinion that cheaters suck and they suck even more if it was a boss doing it with a subordinate and a very powerful boss at that. There are ways to frame that where it isn't even consentual and I don't think it's been established yet that it was even consentual, and indeed it would be hard to establish such a thing, which is why it is such a big HR NO NO thing. The power imbalance makes even a consentual relationship look like it could've been something worse when refusing could get you in trouble with your boss. So, I think, if Jensen is basically unable to put 2 and 2 together and keep it in his pants enough to avoid the potential of rape allegations had this gone even more sideways, he is not responsible enough in his own personal moral life to be leading a company.

So, I wish Jensen the best, and I am thankful for his many years of good leadership. But he needs to get some control over his personal proclivities before returning to being a CEO of a major publicly traded company. Some time off, some confession time, some trying to get a handle on whatever other addictions have cropped up due to the money, would be a good thing for him, and I am wishing him well, but do not think it is in his best interests to continue on as CEO and end up looking like a total villain.