alt Hacker News> Reading between the lines, what probably happened is that Jensen didn't come totally clean with the board on Nov 8 and tell them about the 2nd K Powell affair. Instead, the board got totally blindsided and lost trust in him. (Is there another 3rd secret affair he's hiding from us?!?) It was impossible to keep Jensen under those circumstances.
Exactly my read as well. "If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two."
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My understanding is that the legal protections for the board of directors can quickly evaporate if they know about such lies and do not take actions. This is a major point of contention in the Oxford LLC bankruptcy proceedings per my understanding after the founder was found to have been persuing several kinds of fraud.
After they caught him in a lie, they may not have been able to not fire him.
Where did the "ants" saying come from? i've kept seeing it here and there after the hacks to Hugging Face and others.
Isn't it a common saying for all pests? I've heard it for ants, mice, and roaches
The Powell affair has been well known for years inside the company.
> and lost trust in him.
I don't think this has anything to do with trust. It's absurd not to trust Huang as the best possible CEO for the company that he brought from zero to 5 trillion dollars in value. It's about being afraid of public opinion, and especially fear of being blamed for not taking the expected decision.
That would be the best estimate, if the choice was 2 or another specific number.
Turns out there were at least three ants.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/12/business/ousted-nvidia-ceo-jen...
The leather jackets were the red flag everyone missed. He needed to be validated as a sexy man.
Man’s been stockpiling affairs like his customers stockpile GPUs.
We were getting ready to draw straws on who should join the anthill for some GPUs. Now we gotta find someone else to seduce.
> Is there another 3rd secret affair
Perfect timing: https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-h...
One ant could just be an antomaly however
Ironic, because in all likelihood, the Ants had a hand in his takedown.
Lawyer here - I actually would bet this is not the case. Whether he came clean or not, the 2nd affair with a subordinate is basically always a firing offense under the sexual harassment and/or code of conduct policy, whether you are a CEO or not.
The lies may be part of it, but if you didn't fire them for the COC/SH violation, you would be in for near infinite liability because it ends up as evidence that the culture from the top was tolerant of violations, etc. THis is not conjecture, it's what has basically always happened in the legal realm when companies try to work around it.