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Jensen Huang resigns

2843 points • by lldb • yesterday at 1:52 PM • 2705 comments • view on HN

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-tran...

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/nvidia-ceo-..., https://www.reuters.com/live/nvidia-live-board-meets-fate-ce...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/12/business/nvidia-jens...


Comments

slow_typist • yesterday at 4:02 PM

With valuation down a two figure percentage it will be interesting to see what other problems they will now publish and kitchen-sink.

adamqureshi • yesterday at 7:55 PM

Netflix - HONYPOT : The Jensen Huang story. Coming soon.

ederamen • yesterday at 7:06 PM

Singapore: 0.07% of global population, 22% of NVIDIA's revenue

another_twist • yesterday at 2:21 PM

I guess everyone looks at infidelity and goes oh the horror. Thing is these are puritanical views and has no bearing on the companys wider performance. Not to mention the fact we dont really know what was going on with these people's personal lives. Now going around sanctions otoh is a whole different problem. Although tbf, given the clown that is the US president right now, I am not sure the US has the moral high ground to suggest selling to China is a problem or anything. I dont see the point of these sanctions, so I understand if Nvidia found a way of going around the sanctioned pathways.

godockly • yesterday at 3:32 PM

Who appointed this clown of an interim CEO??? Mark my words... It's gonna be long way down for NVDA from here. SAD. REAL SAD

ferguess_k • yesterday at 2:03 PM

I guess no one wants an Emperor, and someone needs to teach the tech lords a lesson after mid-term, let's see how NVIDIA holds up.

jasondigitized • yesterday at 10:08 PM

The leather jacket was a giant red flag. He needed to be validated as a sexy man just like many other billionaire nerds.

latentsea • yesterday at 7:28 PM

Huang out to dry.

radomird3 • yesterday at 3:40 PM

He wanted to take time off to play gta 6, but ran out of pto days so he resigned, what a chad!

LightBug1 • yesterday at 10:36 PM

Tesla Board of Directors currently looking at each other ... in silence.

motbus3 • yesterday at 3:28 PM

maybe denny's will offer him a role

(bad) jokes aside, it seems that the us gov probably dont believe enough on the affair case for gpus to appear in china and they got rid of the guy

i think this might be the end of an evolution era for nvidia.

dev_l1x_be • yesterday at 6:26 PM

Well well somebody did not play by the books.

thibsrn • yesterday at 2:06 PM

Those are some world-changing, high impact, most consequential genitals right there. Impressive.

imjonse • yesterday at 3:15 PM

we'll see whether it was about the affairs if Nvidia keeps promoting open weight models or just becomes a supplier for openai and anthropic's closed ecosystems for 'national security' reasons.

orbital-decay • yesterday at 8:14 PM

Law and adultery are so obviously irrelevant here, besides being used as kompromat. That's a pretty transparent and well timed punishment for disloyalty and a corporate+state coup of one group against another, there's zero doubt about that. I wonder if anyone who commented "oh it's just China doing Chinese things" on Jack Ma back in the day will ever notice (ironic) parallels with Huang. Detestable.

VikRubenfeld • yesterday at 2:28 PM

Jensen will probably run SpaceX's chip fab and grow it to the size of Nvidea.

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isoprophlex • yesterday at 2:09 PM

The memeing on r/wallstreetbets is off the chart today. At least we have that...

Jaauthor • yesterday at 6:13 PM

Jensen caught playing with his Huang.

nntwozz • yesterday at 10:03 PM

Now, I'm going to give you a piece of advice, boy. You keep your dick in your pants and your eyes on the prize.

— Senator Judson Ross in Species II (1998)

(Played by James Cromwell)

Words to live by.

portmortem • yesterday at 4:16 PM

Liquor, ladies or leverage - choose your poison.

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bifftastic • yesterday at 5:55 PM

I hear Michael Carrick is available

danielmartins • yesterday at 2:44 PM

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

chvid • yesterday at 2:14 PM

The American empire cutting off its nose to spite China.

mgaunard • yesterday at 9:18 PM

Firing one the world's smartest men that built one of the most valuable companies just because he had consensual sex with a woman he wasn't married with.

Welcome to corporate America.

azqa • yesterday at 4:16 PM

The biggest layoff because of AI :xD.

737min • yesterday at 8:21 PM

Chinese Politburo has more engineers than NVIDIA board of directors.

Kuyawa • yesterday at 3:26 PM

Your career wrecked for a pussy, since 10,000 BC

We will never change, thank god AI doesn't have sexual instincts... yet

rixed • yesterday at 4:40 PM

Is this how nationalization of strategic assets are done?

At least the Chinese spy story is more charitable than if they had found his name in Epstein files.

htrp • yesterday at 2:01 PM

coup brought to you by anthropic?

listedb • yesterday at 2:22 PM

Not surprising at all is it?

hero4hire • yesterday at 5:43 PM

Banging Chinese Spies presents a conflict of interest the Board cannot overlook.

Banging 1000 women while married is Chinese "Boss" behavior.

The cause and effect is that any and all future CEOs caught in a honeypot will be easier to compromise. Xi loves the news. Nerds with one billion dollars hoping to attain unlimited groupies will need proper Hollywood Handlers. HR for whore intake if you will. Until the sex robots arrive.

Since this company has abandoned gamers for AI. Plus allegedly giving away a few million plus chips (gamers get fucked) to China. I am fully on his wife's side. She was there at the beginning.

Luckily we know that American courts are one sided. Making the upcoming divorce more costly then the Bill Gate's Foundation implosion. What's the over/under divorce cost trending on Polymarket right now? Seems undervalued.

trolleski • yesterday at 2:12 PM

He got tired of winning.

xbmcuser • yesterday at 4:06 PM

Jensen Huang getting caught with his pants down was not on my bingo card for how AI ponzi schemes will crash. This is the same guy and the same board that has been loaning peter to rent compute from paul who buys from them. ie circular financing juicing forward revenue.

ryzvonusef • yesterday at 2:27 PM

Elon knocking on his door rn ;p

Eh, i think he's acting as a heatshield for Nvidia, his affairs are irrelevant, but the Chinese sales could put both Nvidia as a company and him as CEO in jail... this allows them both to pretends it's a 'personal issue' and get away with it.

That bit with Dwarkesh was very prophetic in hindsight.

zachwills • yesterday at 7:10 PM

and outlook goes down

Karupan • yesterday at 2:44 PM

As an outsider, can the US president pardon Jensen AND Nvidia? Let’s say he “donates” a cool hundred million dollars, and the fact that as per US law corporations are people, I think Trump can technically do that?

P.S: not saying this should happen.

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Implicated • yesterday at 1:57 PM

Moving fast, I see.

karim79 • yesterday at 2:39 PM

Were he gay this could have probably been avoided. Oh well...

FrustratedMonky • yesterday at 5:34 PM

Lets see if suddenly loosing a CEO has an impact.

Maybe as a little test of the necessity of CEO's.

Maybe plug in an AI CEO to see what happens.

tartuffe78 • yesterday at 2:00 PM

Guy sleeps with spy

Conspiracy reaction: Something is going on here... obviously not due to sleeping with a spy...

thwgrw • yesterday at 2:19 PM

a night with venus, a lifetime with mercury

xyzsparetimexyz • yesterday at 4:41 PM

Huang/Nvidia = House Atreides Lisa Su/AMD = House Harkonnen GPUs = Sandworms US Govt = The Emperor/House Corrino Smugging GPUs to China = Smuggling Sandworms off planet to try and break the spice monopoly

This event = some stuff that happens in book 2/ movie part 3 Stuff

thwgrw • yesterday at 2:19 PM

always helps to keep it in your pants

ReptileMan • yesterday at 4:13 PM

Elon can do the most hilarious thing by hiring him for a chip company.

ksec • yesterday at 2:00 PM

I believe Jensen is still the largest individual shareholder for Nvidia.

Waiting to see how market reacts, I am selling my shares.

Dear Jensen, time to start another company.

And if you believe in conspiracy theory, I guess anthropic is very happy.

spwa4 • yesterday at 3:16 PM

Oh no. They're giving the reins to the Chief Financial Officer.

May God have mercy on us all.

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