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Jensen and Lori met in early 1980s or so when they were 17 and 19 years old respectively. Moreover they got married in 1985, 13 years before Nvidia was even founded. Quite different from Bill and Melinda hooking up after Microsoft don't you think ? Not to mention his apology.

> One of the revelations about the Gates' lives was that Bill's promiscuity was apparently baked into their marriage agreement.

Are there details on this? Yes, I do like the sordid gossip.

> I would not even be quick to assume this is some sort of unknown betrayal to his family

But (unless "unknown" is doing a lot of work in your sentence) Huang literally said this in his letter to NVidia employees: "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry."

Otherwise, I agree with a lot of what you said. In the 2000-2015 timeframe, I really idolized a lot of these successful tech leaders - they seemed incredibly smart, hard-working, and talented (though also of course lucky). But over time I came to the realization that many of them just fundamentally think very differently than I do, and I view that other way of thinking with disgust. The main issue is it seems like nearly all of their relationships are transactional, and they have a lack of empathy and willingness to be ruthless that is simply anathema to me.

The affairs were probably open secrets to those high up for a while. Once Jensen's reputation passes a perceived point of no return, it makes sense for the other higher ups to leak everything they know to the media to shorten the duration of the scandal. The worst has happened, their action will not change, so no need to drag it out.

Whitehouse knew it months ago… why is it coming out after election? Not sure how it would have impacted it beforehand.

This is an obvious Chinese government op in coordination with US media to get him removed.

China manufactures their own AI chips now. It’s in their national interest to impede US progress in this area.

Powerful men cheating is often normalized in their immediate environment. Jensen was seen with both women many times. It's the Chinese spy and export ban skirt angle that made it untenable.

Cf. the open secret nature around the entire Epstein cabal.

> and the sudden release of information about all three women is coordinated for some nefarious business reason.

This framing is plain silly because it ignores the sequence of events. NVidia conducted an investigation after Huang admitted to having an affair with someone the US Government believed to be a Chinese spy, and in any case NVidia sold billions worth of embargoed chips to that company (and now it seems we have some proof per another HN front page story that the latest leading Chinese open source models were trained on embargoed NVidia chips). So then the other 2 instances of infidelity came out in the course of the investigation - of course as they definitely should, otherwise it would be a really shitty investigation!

It's not like Huang's 3 paramours got together before the investigation started in some sort of nefarious plot.

It's true of kitchen-ant comments as well: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We have to figure out where this comes from! It's so recent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828285 references https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2084856543561093535 - that's the earliest I've seen so far. Others?

Edit: thanks ChatGPT: https://barrypopik.com/blog/there_is_never_one_cockroach_bus...

Proverb #232 of https://www.asau.ru/files/pdf/2759983.pdf says it's attested from 1991:

232 There is never just one cockroach. (1991)

Variant: There is never just one cockroach in the kitchen

Ants are nicer though.

If the ant in your kitchen IPOs the same day you are evicted from your kitchen, the spies in your kitchen are not Chinese.

> If you find two ants in the kitchen, there are more than two ants in the kitchen.

And Jensen Huang may have had an improper relationship with at least one of them.

listening to the verge?

They weren't naive waifs. They knew what the deal was and who the dealer was.

Why?

Do you suppose Sheryl Sandberg was also trying trt?

One affair always brings up other affairs out of the closet. Same rule goes for harassment and abuse claims.

That’s what is going on.

The better metaphor is "where there's smoke, there's fire."

Three different news orgs have reported the different affairs.

This happens all the time with news stories and doesn't require conspiracy theories. Once an initial story breaks, other journalists investigate (if they weren't already). No doubt Nvidia started investigating internally and employees will have leaked the findings.

There isn't really even any point in this third story from the point of view of any "coordinated attack". He's already resigned.

just to diversify this subthread a little, i actually do see the perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50476972

tbf, these side affairs i think are more just people piling on

Correlation isn’t causation always. Once there’s a scandal, more people start digging, and the more they dig, the more they find. The news cycle continues rewarding more information, so you keep getting more.

Are you serious? He had multiple affairs is what's going on. Including one with a spy. And people who wouldn't be believed before are now coming forward.

There's probably some mildly interesting risk-balancing that happened behind the scenes because the intel community apparently knew mid-2026 and only spilled the beans now, but this is entirely of Jensen's own doing. He confessed.

He clearly is a top performer, though, managing four-plus relationships is a big job.

> What's really going on?

A lesson, apparently, for everyone asking "what the big deal is".

If ever you wanted to understand the meaning of the word "liability", here it is.

"Coordinated hits", as you put it, have as their prerequisite the creation of a "liability".

I am reminded of the tv series "the shield". When it ends, our guy is asked "what all do you have to declare". I am paraphrasing.

Pretty sure the board asked the same question. Having finally been called to do their work, they can't just close the books without asking "what else do you have to declare" to both Jensen and at least all the direct reportees. And if there was a declaration, you can always find someone to leak it to the media.

Not saying that happened, just saying that it is likely such direct questions were asked and answered last few days.

Journalism plus circumstances loosening tongues and reducing the downside of being truthful.

As the British police are fond of saying in cold case appeals: allegiances shift.

A serial adulterer is revealed to have adulterated serially, and SV types are spilling oodles of ink attempting to justify loose morals and bad decision-making so long as it brought increased shareholder value.

Dont mess up with the intelligence community. He should have talked more to Jack Ma.

journalists pumping their sources

It's weird, right? You see the same thing in police investigations. Oh, they know some things early, then, later, release more information? We're not that dumb.

When a real scandal happens, everything we know or will ever know gets dropped all at once. Anything else and you know someone is pulling the strings. The question is who? My money is on the arrow of time.

Entrapment, they (FBI, whatever) knew about the "spy" and yet didn't go like ... "Hey Jensen, we gotta tell you something..." Pathetic.

>> What's really going on?

A shell game. This is the distraction portion. Then comes the switch, the reveal and the swipe. Watch the market indicators. Nobody buying and selling shares in a trillion-dollar company cares one iota about extramarital affairs. Something else is happening.

As it turns out, Huang was a fallible human being.

It's as common as days of the week that end in the letter Y.

I wouldn't be surprised if she's known for years, if not decades. If she wants out she always has the Melinda Gates option.

I'm sure his wife feels reassured by that statistic.

There's no need to look. Jensen Huang might have been great for his shareholders, but he sure has been screwing the rest of us over hard.

He was responsible for hanging consumers out to dry by destroying the consumer PC market in chase of more profit. He is gambling with the world economy. He appears on interviews being a dick about all of this.

So I'd say this is very much in character for him.

All the irrelevant ant kitchen posts really drives home the dead internet theory.

Is it so bad? He founded one of history's most successful companies in one of the most exciting sectors on the planet and ran it for 33 years. He's 63.

The only thing that would actually be bad is if his wife left him, which we don't know is happening yet. Some women accept the "risk" (to put it tastelessly) of marrying a hundred-billionaire, and stick it out.

"Claude, build me a website that tracks with whom Jensen Huang had an affair yet! Register the domain hasjensenhuanghadanaffair.with and treat GETs on subdirectories as names for queries, like hasjensenhuanghadanaffair.with/JaneDoe should display whether he had an affair with Jane Doe."

sigh, another 2038 problem to solve.

:)

You also need employees.

Maybe aging to 60+ won't be that bad? Thank you Jensen for showing younger men there is hope.

Buy a brown one

Bill Gates had a similar pattern

One relationship per GPU core.

There are memes about... running SLI <wink wink nudge nudge>

And frankly at this point, where nothing surprises you anymore we should probably just enjoy some stupid pictures with captions

Plenty of benign explanations without needing tinfoil

- The affair(s) were so badly hidden that they became obvious once one was exposed

- High profile CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world means a lot of eyes

- something akin to the Streisand effect keeps things in the news cycle

The initial story about the spy dropped on October 29th, before the midterms.

At that point it was probably just a matter of time until the rest came out.

I mean it’s just much more of a favorable political environment for the board to investigate Huang. And journalists know that if there’s smoke, there’s likely fire. So it seems like a pretty natural pile-on if anything.

It is kinda weird that Jensen decided to resign so quickly though. I would’ve expected a longer investigation period involving both the board and Congress.

Need a power of 2 now

Fast fall, yes, but his rise has been years in the making.

[delayed]

Having a cushion of $145B he won't be hurt from the fall.

I thought attention is all you need.

(This must have originally been posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50473868 - we've since merged the threads.)

It all lining up perfectly with their quarterly earnings call does seem like a bit of a strange coincidence at the very least.

These are also not actually new developments, but years old. So they could have easily been stockpiled ahead of time, ready to deploy when opportune. Or maybe that's just standard when you're high profile enough? It's like accumulating and strategically burning 0 days. Or trading them for that matter.

Or at least the original report was like this. These newer ones are perfectly well explained by opportunism imo, if one is to believe that the anonymous sources really are company internal.

His affairs are clearly reprehensible, but what does this have to do with how hard he works?

You would do the same thing in his position!

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