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NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition

971 points • by lldb • today at 1:52 PM • 799 comments • view on HN

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FLeXMurphy • today at 2:51 PM

Chinese spy? or a plant from one of the AI companies to install a CEO?

gigatexal • today at 2:51 PM

So … Johnny Siruji the new CEO when?

[macrumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/11/12/johny-srouji-eyed-as-po...)

thwgrw • today at 2:19 PM

a night with venus, a lifetime with mercury

dbg31415 • today at 2:37 PM

> NVIDIA’s strength has always come from its people...

Think they take this stance when it's time to hand out yearly bonuses?

thwgrw • today at 2:19 PM

always helps to keep it in your pants

Implicated • today at 1:57 PM

Moving fast, I see.

Varelion • today at 2:15 PM

I love the stock dive for nvidia. I hope it never stops.

mihaaly • today at 2:08 PM

Let this be a learning experience for everyone here: if you ever get the CEO if a US tech giant, then never f** a Chinese spy! (and never circumvent export bans while you are at it)

lenerdenator • today at 2:02 PM

Someone of incredible wealth and influence suffering negative outcomes for something wrong that they did?

I'm not familiar with the thing I'm seeing.

Might call my financial advisor and ask him to buy some shares. They'll be lower, and the board has shown it can actually protect the interests of shareholders.

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JoJacobs7676 • today at 2:17 PM

He was at the top of the world just last week and now his career is over. Slept with a direct subordinate - who btw rose quickly through the ranks - also slept with a Chinese spy and allegedly sold one of the most precious commodities in modern times illegally to an economic adversary. Hit job or not, he really fucked up.

1over137 • today at 2:28 PM

One tech oligarch down, many to go.

throwayay58373 • today at 2:07 PM

The volume of glee in this thread is alarming.

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tartuffe78 • today at 2:00 PM

Guy sleeps with spy

Conspiracy reaction: Something is going on here... obviously not due to sleeping with a spy...

epolanski • today at 1:59 PM

Not sure about the people thinking he didn't do much wrong.

The point is that as CEO of a company you have a fiduciary duty to have the best interest of a company in your actions and behavior.

Having sex with your workers and chinese spies is obviously not the kind of behavior that reflects that.

And if companies did not fire their CEOs over such blatant missteps the wrong message would be sent to the whole corporate America.

It sucks because obviously Nvidia would be nowhere without Jensen, and it's not like he killed someone or committed fraud, but the mistakes have been huge none the less.

And don't forget that those are the two cases we know about, but when you see 2 ants in your kitchen there's always more.

And the internal investigation of Nvidia quickly assessed that the issue was bigger and Jensen was more of a liability than an asset.

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ViktorRay • today at 2:31 PM

I really hope the NVIDIA GeForce Now service sticks around and doesn't get enshittified.

It's actually an excellent high quality service and with all the shortages should hopefully continue to get more and more successful. Cloud gaming will continue to become a more important part of gaming.

Now that Microsoft recently enshittified Xbox Cloud Gaming, we have a situation where GeForce Now is pretty much the only good option left.

ObnoxiousProxy • today at 2:12 PM

Nvidia is screwed.

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shevy-java • today at 3:31 PM

He can not resist the pretty girls.

What is, however had, more interesting is that many of his statements did not age well. Now, mind you - I still think it is his private life at the end of the day; one can reason about foreign spies, but then the same question can be asked about Trump and his strange addiction to Putin. As well as how Jen-Hsun was so obedient to a mainland-China female, when the other Taiwanese are scared of being possibly invaded and subsequently killed by dictator Xi, just as dictator Putin commits to his own personal genocide against Ukrainians right now.

But, with regards to statements, I distinctly remember Jen-Hsun berating the british as incompetent economists. I watched that on a shorts on youtube; can not find it right now (google search AND youtube search sucks to no ends now). Well - he may be right that the UK suffers huge economic problems, but boy, this has not aged well. People will poke fun at his love of women potentially being spies while berating the british as being too incompetent in economics. Perhaps he was too incompetent in his own love life?

DonHopkins • today at 2:10 PM

>NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition (nvidia.com)

One Blue Tsunami, and now all the oligarchs are suddenly turning progressive and transitioning! Trump was right all along. This is exactly what he was trying to warn us about.

Think of all the mistresses who will now have to accept and adapt to their oligarch lover's new gender -- Jensen has at least two that we know of, but when you see two ants in the kitchen, you know there are a lot more. I can't wait to see the wig Bezos picks out.

Jamesbeam • today at 2:50 PM

The reason this is all going so quickly now is because they realised how deep the shit is Jensen put the company in.

There will be an endless walk of shame for Jensen that would constantly drag the price of the company down, because this is the perfect opportunity for the Democrats to fly out of the gate in January and put the fear of god into the other billionaire oligarchs again. Punish one with extreme measures the others will fall in line, because at the end of the day they are all pussys.

Remember Elon wanted to do cagefighting with Zuckerberg. Those two losers had every excuse ready not to fight in the end. They didn’t even touch gloves for a single sparring. Manly men. All they can do is tough talk.

Plus the voters will see at least one party is doing something against blatant billionaire corruption, with corruption being the third most important topic in the elections.

There needs to be made an example of what happens to you if you start selling weapons-grade technology to the enemies of the United States for personal profit, and then think you are above the law.

This is not over for Jensen. And also not over for Nvidia, so the only sane thing to do is get as much distance between the "rogue" CEO and the company. Same for the White House, let’s see how often we see Jensen and Trump still together.

They are going to throw him under the bus and say he had the opportunity and the access and the power to do this without anyone else noticing, especially as he was sexually manipulating managers that directly report to him on important corporate issues.

They will make it look as though it’s all Jensen’s fault because otherwise they stop being a trillion-dollar company.

It’s a fitting end for Jensen Huang.

He gets taken down by the holy trifecta of power, money and politics he valued above his own marriage or what this whole mess would do to his kids.

He even lied in his public apology because he still was confident the other affair with his married manager would never surface because he truly believes he is smarter than anyone else.

What a loser. 140B deep pockets and still a loser.

Money is only paper. All that counts is family.

Threw away his life’s work, his marriage and every last drop of respect for him as a man, father and husband his kids could ever have for pocket change and some ass.

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avajon • today at 2:13 PM

If shareholders want to save the company fu-g board of directors should be replaced completely and Jensen back.

Colette Kress has brain of Marisa Mayer who destroyed Yahoo. A woke clown to lead technology company? No vision, no skills, no understanding of technology.

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proc0 • today at 1:58 PM

Because he cheated on his wife?? Or what am I missing? If that's the official reason, I don't buy it. I don't think those who can influence this decision give two shits about this type of morality. It's silly on its face. Obviously it's cover for some other agenda. I'm just surprised people buy this silly excuse instead of getting to the bottom of what is really happening.

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saberience • today at 2:05 PM

I have to say, this seems like a ridiculous over-reaction on the part of the board.

I think if you could know the truth, 75% of CEOs in the US probably cheat on their wives. They are not hired to be faithful to their wives, they are hired to increase the stock prices of their companies.

Like sure, if you're a good Christian, it's not good behavior, but ultimately, it's just having sex with someone. I want the guy to make me money and build a great company, I don't care who he has sex with.

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logicallee • today at 2:10 PM

As per our Law 3, the shortselling companies responsible for this will now be liquidated:

https://stateofutopia.com/laws/3/law3.html

I'd like to give some insight into this process. A few days ago, we learned that market disrupters were planning negative news to artificially collapse the AI economy, we investigated it at the time and considered completely outlawing short selling. Here is our investigation: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_e05fb23d-aa67-43e4-a7c1-df...

As you can see, it was not clear that we should completely eliminate short selling.

When the character assassination process began against Jensen (who is the Founder of NVidia; he currently owns around 3% of the stock; his stake is worth around $100 billion) we gave our feedback that this is not newsworthy.

Yesterday, we learned of plans to remove him from his position and passed the law linked above, making this illegal.

We will now begin the process of liquidating and delisting the short seller companies involved. These are some investment banks.

We do not consider any of the recent reporting to be newsworthy or material.

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macinjosh • today at 2:04 PM

The only reason Jensen is out is because he doesn't pretend AI is an existential threat like Anthropic and OpenAI do to boost their own valuation/moats and to boost the anti-China sentiment for the administration.

yanhangyhy • today at 2:09 PM

another poor chinese guy. they will never be trusted in the america system.

kittikitti • today at 2:18 PM

Jensen Huang called Israel a "second home" while it was committing genocide against Palestinians. This is just a continuation of a pattern of corruption. I think he resented his own success because these are not honest mistakes. Jensen Huang is the AI Great Gatsby.

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