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  filipdobro
  This seems like a coordinated hit, slowly releasing more and more information. What's really going on?
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  chj
  I find it interesting that people can jump to their judgement assuming "sources" are true. Do you really trust everything they say?
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  xianshou
  If you find two ants in the kitchen, there are more than two ants in the kitchen.
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  soupfordummies
  feel bad for his wife man, has to be rough to keep seeing this
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  legitster
  There is an obvious pattern for these high level executive roles. They are all workaholics, they are not particularly loyal, they all have loose moral compasses, they don't have any clear line between work and their personal life, and they treat relationships like business arrangements.This feels so common that I would not even be quick to assume this is some sort of unknown betrayal to his family. One of the revelations about the Gates' lives was that Bill's promiscuity was apparently baked into their marriage agreement. At this level, your marriage might just be like a fixed mailing address for someone who has multiple homes.Not to excuse this in any way. But these are the personalities of medieval lords and kings.
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  pylua
  Is this common at the board level of major companies and uncommon to get out? Or is this really uncommon.
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  10xDev
  TIL: True monogamy only appears in 3-5% of mammals in the animal kingdom.
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  King-Aaron
  There's this little part of me wondering if this was all known about for a long time, and the sudden release of information about all three women is coordinated for some nefarious business reason.
• DerDerDaIst
  I even he prerfers humans over AI....
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  dbgrman
  "if you see two ants, its usually not just two ants"
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  atleastoptimal
  I always got the impression that it was somewhat of an open secret that most billionaires had soft harems of sorts, usually tacitly understood but never publicly addressed, and that the apparent outrage at affairs/scandals at this level is a sort of charade of allegiance to social norms to enforce the facade that standards of propriety apply even at the highest levels.
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  maxnevermind
  I wonder if he followed a modern trend and was on TRT, it seems like a pattern for celebrity/powerful men of age these days: get on TRT, get in shape, cheat on your wife.
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  bloopernova
  "I want a man with a short shirt, and a Huang jacket"----I hope that the people he had affairs with are treated ok and not retaliated against or hounded by the world news media.
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• testfrequency
  The mental gymnastics people are doing here to save face for Huang.I don’t care if it’s 100 employees at this point, the big topic here should be that he is not to be trusted. He quite literally has been spoon feeding China behind the US’s back. He deceived the entire country, he’s a con man.The relationships are just an awful aside of what’s turning out to be a very bigger concern about national security.
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• dgggh
  He is the King of GPU.
• francasso
  Honestly, I couldn't care less if there were hundreds more.
• vcanales
  "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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  fjjfudkckdkf
  Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.
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  pepitogarvan
  Tbh i do not understand the drama … not the first ceo to had affairs and shady deals, It feels more like the powers at be want to cut down Nvidia support to open models via removing the guy at the top due his liability with hot Asian girls but come on. Palantir had worst ceo for instance and nobody raises an eyebrow to name one
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  epolanski
  When you see two ants in the kitchen there's likely many more.Huang has been a great boss and steward of Nvidia, but ultimately falling for subordinates is grave enough, adding alleged Chinese spies, and allegations you sold Tencent billions of hardware through shady Singaporean companies for which the alleged spy worked etc and the board had no other options.At this point it would be surprising if what we know is likely a small part and the Nvidia board saw enough very quickly to ask for his head.
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  misiti3780
  I would if he went to bed everything realizing this is how it could all end?
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  mudil
  In its day, Britain imprisoned Oscar Wilde and castrated the brilliant Alan Turing for homosexuality, driving him to his death. Now we look back on this in horror as an example of collective madness.So how will we look back a couple of decades from now on the atmosphere of the 21st-century woke party committee, which, on the word of a spurned woman, fired the brilliant biologist David Sabatini and destroyed the visionary founder of a company over extramarital affairs?
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  afavour
  At the current rate of disclosure Huang is going to be revealed to have had an affair with every woman in the world by 2038. It’s vital that we build out infrastructure to support this if we don’t want to be left behind.At least we’ve now passed the tipping point where the majority of affairs are domestic. Some country out there is going to achieve HSM (Huang Second Marriage) and it’s vital to future prosperity that we make sure it’s the US.
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  Betelbuddy
  That is it...I am buying a leather jacket!
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  debrisontrack
  I don't who the 3rd affair will be with, but the 4th one will be with sticks and stones
• serf
  the public discourse around this thing and the moralizing reminds me of the Norm Macdonald bit about Tiger Woods."What? I don't believe you! Are you telling me, are you trying to tell me that that guy , worth 6 billion, you're telling me that the world's greatest athlete over there, Tiger Woods -- you're telling me that that guy, that super handsome charismatic dude likes to lie down with ladies?I DON'T BUY IT!"
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  minimaxir
  One affair is a scandal.Two affairs is a pattern.Three affairs is just funny.
• nirui
  Man! Mr. Huang is B.U.S.Y., even at work lolJust my opinion here, spy is probably fine, coworker is big no no. If I got a spy to bang, after it's done I'll publicly praise her on Twitter to thank her for the good time (assuming it is, otherwise I will have give advice) and tag my wife too so we can actually try the tricks at home but this time with true love. If a female coworker enters a meeting room alone with me, I'll insist that she keep the door behind her open so everyone can supervise what we are doing.It's kinda pity. Mr. Huang seemed a nicer guy than the other CEOs, less dicky, trying to be useful etc. But then maybe that's why the other CEOs act like they do, a way to filter out the less loyal members from the company board. If Mr. Huang survives this, maybe he should get rid of whoever supported his ousting from the board, wasting money to breed a coup always burdens earning potential.
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  haunter
  Amateur. Tiger Woods had at least 9 extramarital affairs.
• citizen-stig
  He is the CEO of GPU company. Parallelism is in the DNA
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  anotherengineer
  stop it!! he's already dead!!in all seriousness though, what is going on? everything here feels well timed and coordinated. were the powers that be just waiting for US midterms to pass? is there any relationship to the anthropic IPO? my tin foil hat is going to be working overtime these next few days
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  numberwan9
  Parallel execution in action
• monkeydust
  Unfortunatley for him I think his troubles are just starting. Heading towards a presidential pardon is strong possibility.
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  lavendermon
  Jensen has had a heck of a ride, fastest rise and fall we've seen in a while. Looks like he didn't handle the attention very well.
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• lukeify
  Might be quicker to start asking which Nvidia employees he didn't sleep with.
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  afavour
  To a certain point I don't really care about how many subordinates it ends up being (something tells me there are more), but it does make all of the grindset quotes CEOs like Huang barf up all the more laughable.> “I work every day. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t work. And if I’m not working, I’m thinking about work.”> “I wake up at 5am, and the moment I wake up, I start working… I’m asleep probably by 9:30pm.https://www.startuparchive.org/p/jensen-huang-there-s-hard-w...A lot of people have said Nvidia are crazy to get rid of Huang, that he's a singular irreplaceable talent. What if, perhaps, he's not all he's made out to be?
• shrike
  I can't believe Jensen Huang popped the AI bubble with his d*ck...
• tornikeo
  Amount of jensen affairs doubles every 24 hours.
• eecc
  Man, the McCarthyist notes in the comments are pure comedy
• mg794613
  Who cares.It is so American to interlink personal affairs with business.
• nly
  This guy could get married and divorced like 8 times, lose 50% of his assets, and still be a billionaire.
• hayek
  most "our democracy" / "juice" op everthis will backfire so hard to the bolshevoke crowd
• lenerdenator
  Rule 1: don't sleep with employees. It's incredibly toxic to corporate culture.This shouldn't need explaining to people who are so intelligent, and the fact that it does means we have serious work to do in this industry, particularly in SV.
• shevy-java
  He likes the ladies. I would not be surprised if a plush teddy bear with his face will be for sale - rumour has it the ladies would want such a teddy bear with that Huang face. (Or whatever it is that makes him appeal to the ladies, I would not know.)
• whywhywhywhy
  Destroying 1 trillion in value and stealing the company from the immigrant who built it from nothing literally started on a napkin in Denny’s, actual American Dream level founding story is asinine over gossip and so far empty spy accusations.
• croes
  To be fair Huang also said he doesn’t know his own address maybe he doesn’t know too who his wife is.
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  mschuster91
  Good lord can Americans please be not so darn weird and prude around that topic. As long as it's consensual and legal, why do you all think it's even remotely acceptable to police what grown-up people get up to in their bed (or hotel) rooms.Signed, a German (the country that Walmart, among other reasons, lost because they wrecked their public image trying to police relationships between employees)
• metalman
  Jensen must be realy good at negotiating pre fuctual agreements, which he did while bieng under constant observation, nvidia budgeted 4 million a year for his personal security, and he will travel and be surrounded by personal staff, and co workers almost 24 hr's a day. So this was all out in the 'open', which some of the pics verrify. The real questions are, why now?, and will he take Elon up on the offer,'very honored to have him', work at spacex.
• lifestyleguru
  One cannot even have sex with a lady nowadays without being CEO of a multi billion company.
• nathias
  Are they all spies or why is this important?
• dare944
  Imagine a country that twice elected a rapist pedophile for a president clutching their pearls over a CEO that steps out on his wife.It's a convenient distraction I guess.
• sys_64738
  Who gives a damn who he is having an r-ship with. It's 2026.
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  rooftopzen
  Parrots another article - even w ", Report Says" as the end of the headline.The original article is from Reuters, partially written by this woman below whose history is all Washington stories then bam 4 articles on Nvidia and tech.https://www.reuters.com/authors/alexandra-alper/Appears to be manipulated news (which we're used to), story is real but should be seen through that lens - why?
• bell-cot
  At how many $billion of market value should a board just figure that it's a cost of doing business to hire retired spooks to keep track of the CEO's personal life, and ensure that he has a pipeline of well-paid, background-checked, NDA-signed mistresses available to divert his eyes from the employees and spies?
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  dan_grec
  Now that he is the former CEO, why does it matter and why is the news cycle still hyper fixated on him?
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  ex-aws-dude
  Look, what happens between a billionaire CEO, three consenting adults, and a Singaporean shell company is a personal matter that should not concern us- Hacker News
• rvz
  There are three "I"s in NVIDIA (latin)
• origini
  So we are now a gossip platform?
• hayek
  typical psychopath "our democracy" or "juice" op ever.This will backfire so hard I can only laugh.
• busymom0
  In a way, these multiple affairs helps him. "Hey I wasn't knowingly having an affair with a spy, I was just fucking every moving body and when you do that, one of them turned out to be a bad apple".
• thibsrn
  I mean he's the boss of a GPU company, no surprise he's having affairs in parallel.
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• dist-epoch
  These AI slop chinese soap-operas are so good...
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