It’s the leather jacket that gave him away. A sort of wearable Porsche that imbibes the wearer with nonchalant, youthful machismo.
Tech’s answer to Tom Cruise.
It was always risky business.
It seems to me that Jensen Huang, like tech geeks Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos before him, sought revenge for being ignored in his spotty youth.
Gates, 70, has admitted to three affairs during his marriage to Melinda French Gates. Bezos hooked up with now-wife Lauren Sanchez while still with previous-wife MacKenzie Scott.
Huang appears to have gone skirt crazy once his baby, Nvidia, had grown up to become the world’s first $5 trillion business. It’s a story as old as time, which is curious, given the forward-looking nature of his AI empire.
To recap, in case you don’t have a 401k that could be decimated by this torrid tale and haven’t been glued to the news in horror. Nvidia has already seen the loss of billions in market value due to the scandal that has emerged over the last week.
Huang, 63, founded his business in 1993, producing computer chips for video games. Therein lies a clue: he was in cahoots with boys.
It’s the leather jacket that gave him away. A sort of wearable Porsche that imbibes the wearer with nonchalant, youthful machismo
Huang has been married to wife Lori since 1985. They met when he was 17 – lab partners at Oregon State University. Huang has sweetly spun a story about being too shy to ask Lori on a first date, but he worked up the courage in about six months.
She was his first girlfriend, they married in their early 20s and have two adult children.
Last weekend, Huang admitted being unfaithful to his wife with a 42-year-old woman, Alice Huang (no relation, phew!), who it has since emerged is suspected of being a Chinese spy.
The worry is that Alice Huang was trying to get a firm hold of not just his buttocks but industry secrets, given the current US ban on selling the world’s most powerful chips to China.
Or is that she simply does adore little old men in round glasses?
I know it seems impossible, but there was worse yet to come for the Huang. He was later revealed to having been caught on video being affectionate with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s VP of healthcare. She too is married.
American companies have strict rules around executives’ relationships with their subordinates: it isn’t just about industrial espionage, it’s about being trustworthy.
Huang resigned as CEO on Thursday, as Reuters reported that there was a third mistress, yet unnamed, who also worked at Nvidia.
Huang has been married to wife Lori since 1985. They met when he was 17 – lab partners at Oregon State University
Huang admitted being unfaithful to his wife with a 42-year-old woman, Alice Huang (no relation, phew!), who it has since emerged is suspected of being a Chinese spy
Blimey! How these men who rule the world have time for dangerous liaisons, not to mention the inevitable podcasts, is beyond me. Thank the lord, since Huang inevitably fell on his sword, a woman, Colette Kress, has been appointed as interim chief executive.
Since then, Elon Musk, no stranger to romantic shenanigans himself having been married three times and dated Amber Heard and Grimes (even thinking about him makes me feel dirty), announced a little too swiftly ‘I’d be honored to hire Huang’ who, apparently, ‘rocks.’
Do these guys still wear short pants?
Huang can’t have been bored, as even thinking about training a collie let alone AI makes my brain hurt. They must know that, in this day and age when everyone wields a lens, they will be found out. Is that where the thrill lies? Who and what else can I conquer?
The women they hook up with are hardly Marilyn Monroes.
Do these Peter Pans not feel guilty, fibbing to the long-suffering wife, the person who helped you achieve your goals, separated your darks from whites, put up with your ego and your absences, who defused your stress, reassured you, championed you, gave birth to your bloody children? Put up with the endless conferences, for which read frat parties, while staying home to woman the fort?
But, really, is it any great wonder why some successful, talented, intelligent and powerful men do what they do when they already have everything they could possibly want?
Huage was later revealed to having been caught on video being affectionate with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s VP of healthcare. She too is married
For many, not all, there’s a devil bargain.
Huang was known for his inhumane work ethic – constantly going 24/7, 365. Truly, never taking a day off. He boasted about it and admitted that he couldn’t have done it – perhaps, he couldn’t have built his image – without his wife.
‘If you’re going to build a company, you need somebody strong and you need somebody amazing like my wife. And she took care of everything,’ Huang said on a podcast in May.
‘Lori took care of everything. And I don’t remember her complaining even one time, one nanosecond or even one instance. That’s the gift that she gave me,’ he said.
Quite a way to repay her.
Now the bill for Huang has come due.
I cannot help but wonder, are the inevitable charitable foundations, with their accompanying word salads of ‘impact volunteering initiative’ and ‘flash-style events’ merely a way of polishing s**t? Vanity projects to help men like Huang and Gates believe, when they wake sweating in the middle of the night wondering if they sent that steamy text to the ball and chain by mistake, that they are good people, really.
Thing is, charity begins at home.
‘I’ve always felt safe taking risks. Maybe it’s because I know that when I get home, Lori is still there,’ Huang told a podcaster this year.
In my view? He should be Huang, drawn and quartered.