alt Hacker NewsHe is definitely on his way out. Name a single F500 CEO that has ever survived an affair admission
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It’s his company and he admitted it? It’s a human failing and it’s his issue to deal with. Nobody else has grown Nvidia from where it started to where it is. Jensen isn’t a politician and you’re missing who would replace him at the helm of his own company?
Would it be grounds for Zuckerberg to step down if he had an affair? Of course not.
Name a single F500 CEO who was in this situation while running a $5 trillion company
I am generally curious: Why is that? Is it because they expose a weakness that allows their enemies to cut them from power, because it is a moral flaw, because they breach employment contract, ...?
Is Bill Gates in this club? What about dear leader before he was president and just a CEO?
Aye. It'll be 25% off the market cap tomorrow, as the location of the CEO's penis is the most important thing in business performance.
Sergey Brin in 2013? Not technically a CEO, but comparable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Personal_life ("...after Brin had an extramarital affair with a Google Glass colleague")
Steve Jobs had a daughter he tried to pretend wasn't his (the namesake of the Apple "Lisa"),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs ("Jobs initially denied paternity for several years, which led to a legal case and various media reports...")