alt Hacker NewsOh come on. Everyone knows these tech CEOs are distasteful humans, people just buy from them because they have little competition (from fellow evil tech CEOs).
The CEO's personality is irrelevant if they're selling something that's in high enough demand. Money matters more than anything.
This particular scandal is an issue for Nvidia because:
1. Actual espionage, national security, etc. is potentially in play - criminal charges cost money.
2. Liability from potential lawsuits around in-office affairs - civil suits cost money.
That's the question, isn't it. It's easy enough to armchair quarterback and say that, as a man, I'm not that distasteful, and that I wouldn't do that, but I haven't been put in that position before. I can pretend to be the most pious, on the other side of my keyboard over the Internet, but, honestly, I haven't actually been sitting in that (bed)room as a billionaire against a woman who's motivated to get me to do her bidding. I can say all I want about what I would do, but that's all just hot air.