Jensen Huang Must Resign

andsoitis

Very well argued piece covering all the angles of pro/against I’ve seen here on HN and elsewhere. All the roads lead to he must resign or be fired.

Kevin_Flynn

Jensen beat the reform academy conditions as a boy. Jensen beat the odds as a founder and CEO. The chinese sent a female spy to make him look like a fool. Thats why all major governments use this tactic. It works on everyone, for some period of time, to some degree. Almost as if the public thinks "Why didn't he know ? Didn't she have a 'Hello I'm a Spy' sticker on at the meetup ?" Now, The Economist aka 'the Rothchilds' aka 'the british billionaires' magazine is throwing him under the double decker for clicks. The man has a track record of winning. This is a speed bump, not a brick wall. We're all apes, and he's the big monkey the little monkeys are attacking today. Just shake it, shake it off.

underseacables

What an interesting Chinese operation. Undermine Nvidia, possibly force the CEO to resign, and lose half the company in a divorce. I'd say as far as China is concerned this was a successful intelligence operation.

dragonelite

Dam is an Asian merchant not allowed to have a mistress or two..

bayarearefugee

> Jensen Huang Must Resign He should probably go to jail (after a fair trial, of course). Even with the few public facts we have now, I don't know how a reasonable person could conclude that it isn't extremely likely that he knew all about the export control diversions that were going on. He would have to be an idiot not to, and he clearly isn't an idiot. That points to him being complicit in very serious (20 year sentence) crimes. https://www.bis.gov/enforcement/penalties Of course there's no way a centibillionaire is going to do 20 days in jail, let alone 20 years (because we don't live in a society with an actually functioning rule of law), but resigning and disappearing from public life is getting off easy here.

qoez

Anyone have a good model of how much more GPU prices would go up (or down) in the world where he resigns vs not. My guess is they would go up even more with some much more ruthless CEO who'd wanna prove himself able to push up the stock price but I guess a counter argument is that there's only so much higher the prices can go so maybe it wouldn't be much different.

gradus_ad

Were Jensen simply a caretaker CEO, a vanilla Board appointment, I would say he should resign. But that is not the case. He is the founder. A founder has a very different relationship to a company. He is its father and mother, and severing that relationship and transitioning to a CEO that does not have the same relationship is fraught with danger. As a shareholder, for purely self interested reasons, I would be very hesitant to call for his removal.

tfwnopmt

White tech founder cheats on his wife? He's just the butt of late-night TV jokes for a few weeks. (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs... the list goes on) Non-white tech founder does the same? Fire him, NOW! Meanwhile Zuck is the only founder that's still a respectable family man, and yet he's pilloried left and right.

sanex

I don't live living in this no forgiveness court of public opinion society. Everyone makes mistakes CEOs are people too. Do you fire the intern to takes down prod? Only if he does it twice.

trilogic

Then all Epstein involved need to resign, they have done way worse, just saying. Cheers Jensen, you rock.

siliconc0w

Isn't it an open secret that Singapore is largely a front for smuggling GPUs into China? I think it's a they know we know they know situation where as long as the stock market goes up to the right, the right political donations get made, and they don't get too brazen about it - no one looks too closely.

ThePinion

So is everyone already commenting their say about all this because we're all Economist subscribers here or are we reading the headline of the paywall and rolling with it?

zergrush

I don't get it what does his personal life has to do with him running NVIDIA? Also despite what is being disseminated in the mainstream media, he lobbied to make China reliant on much older chips which were approved and puts America at a huge advantage, but narratives are being wildly twisted to sell that Jensen Huang acted dishonorably against this country. There is a nasty smear campaign against Jensen Huang throughout social media, cheating on his wife is one thing, political maneuvering before we even learn of what the actual damage if any was done and kneecapping an enterprise while America has a lead over others in AI is sabotage.

ProblemExplorer

What people don't realize is this was a (successful? depends on you and how you force NVIDIA's hands) foreign intelligence operation to undermine the foundational fabric on top of which all of US Domestic AI is built. Leave your personal hatred for job killing, soul sucking AI aside for a bit: You cannot swap CEOs like you can swap a filesystem without having severe ripple effects. Even swapping one mature filesystem to another mature filesystem has deep consequences and can even lead you to losing data. And this is a co-founder of the company. NVIDIA is where it is today because of him . In every video I've seen of Jensen Huang, I've seen a genuine person who wants to do good. Yes, he caved in to basic instincts but that was because he was being actively pursued. Whether that was a mistake is only for him and his wife to decide together. It's not our decision to make or sway. We will find out their decision soon enough. If this affects his performance as a CEO, he has to resign. However, make no mistake that this was an attack by a foreign government to the foundational fabric on top of which all of US Domestic AI is built. Also take into account that the U.S was going to enter into a deep recession had it not been for Domestic AI - as much as we hate AI and curse it, banks are still operating, grocery stores are still open, welders and electricians still have jobs. If you think we have it bad now , it's provably better than what would happen in a deep recession. The last one happened in 2008 so some of you here might not have been out of school yet, but it was very, very bad. This is a trillion dollar stake corporate espionage. This is how cold war looks like.

hackmack10

This dude was signing boobs just a few months ago, thinking he was a rock star. Also, no doubt this isn't the first time he cheated on his wife, you never get caught the first time.

igleria

does he get a golden parachute if he resigns?

maxglute

Or Jensen should spend his fortune sue the fuck out the natsec deep state types for yellow peril shenanigans trying to push him out the second Trump loses political power and undermining Nvidia fiscal position. Reality is there's still zero evidence she was spy, publicly posting Jensen fuckboi behavior on Chinese social media last few months. Or Chinese national talking to chinese gov =/= spy, just business usual everywhere unless customary US natsec China Initiative framing designed to discredit when no impropriety was done. AKA no reason Jensen did an illegal like supermicro... operated on the extreme edge of legality sure, i.e. letter of law which pisses off export control hawks that can't figure out how to draft tight laws, and getting consistently outplayed by Jensen. Hence coordinated media campaign framing generic public affair for sticking dick in 40 year old worse than 16 year old, because pedophiles can still be patriotic vs yellow fever, or something. Did Jensen fly too close to sun, sure, but ideally he'll live up to that leather jacket and start hitting back.

svara

Selling chips to China is in NVIDIA's interest; many China hawks in the US are skeptical of that. It'll be so much more difficult for him now to advocate for his position that NVIDIA should be selling to China in front of people who are already skeptical. I don't think he can stay, even if it's just for that reason.

jceg

The Economist used to be an impartial, accurate, and respectful publication. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly politicized and biased.

insane_dreamer

is there someone better suited to running nVidia than Jensen? If not, then it doesn't make much sense to fire him other than to provide nVidia for legal protection from lawsuits/charges against him (which firing him may or may not provide) it would be different if he were some typical CEO that's hired in and been around for a few years, or if he were a founder 5-10 years in and great at starting a company but not suited to running it once very large (which founders often aren't)