He gets a slap on the wrist and a golden parachute

Do they even need him anymore? With all the data center contracts Nvidia is too big to fail now. And if/when the bubble bursts, even Huang won't save it.

Yeah, the Jacket took nvidia from a small business selling to gamers to #1 company in the world worth 5 trillion dollars (jf I'm not mistaken, also the first in the world to cross the trillion dollar line in marketcap), surpassing microslop and apple, trashing all their competition, and making the entire market eat from their hands. If they do it, I'd be surprised. And even if they do it, he'd likely just take a seat at the board like you said. There's no way they're removing him completely.

Well, he resigned before they could.

Good shout. AI would be much more efficient at leaking secrets, without needing the messy affair(s).

With Huang

I think it’s more about leaking industrial secrets that undermine the commercial war between USA and China, and less about his romantic life. He could have had ten affairs not involving foreign spies, and no one at Nvidia would care.

if he were a pedo rapist he could be president

Dude had a second affair so far.

I don't really care about CEO affairs, but the whole with a spy and sending gpus to sanctioned China is a whole other matter.

Steve should bring on Ed Zitron as a guest for that one

More than just that. I was listening to an NPR report on this the other day and they described how he interacted with the company and it sounds incredibly Hands-On. Micromanagement to the extreme. The way they described him was he's the head of the pyramid and everything reports directly to him. That he seems to be involved with nearly every aspect of the company all the way down to marketing. Now I'm not 100% sure how accurate that reporting is but if that's the perception at the company it's extremely interesting.

Because the other thing the report emphasized was there's no succession plan. He's the head of the pyramid and he didn't want there to be another option. Apparently he says it's because he doesn't want stagnation, but I suspect it's because if there is not a succession plan in place it's harder to just cut ties with them.

Quite literally one of the founders of the company.

"If I had a nickel for every mistress I've slept with that turned out to be a Chinese spy, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's wild that happened twice."