Nvidia Board Moves to Oust Jensen Huang as CEO Search Begins, Reports Say
A Wall Street Journal exclusive published November 12 reported that Nvidia's board is preparing to remove founder and CEO Jensen Huang, sending shockwaves through the market: NVDA fell as much as 8%9% after hours. Nvidia has not confirmed the report, and other outlets such as Reuters have only cited WSJ.
Confirmed
- WSJ reporters Robbie Whelan, Lingling Wei, and Josh Dawsey jointly published the exclusive, saying the board is moving to oust Jensen Huang, with a meeting possible as early as that day.
- The trigger reportedly involves two extramarital affairs: one with the person Huang acknowledged in a November 8 internal email, and another with healthcare VP Kimberly Powell, who reported to him (per the New York Times); the woman in one of these affairs has been alleged to be a Chinese spy, a claim unverified by any court or the company.
- The company launched an independent investigation into the affairs and is also assessing potential national security risks; per a post by rocket, shares fell about 8% just three days after the probe began.
- Market reaction: Polymarket's NVDA perpetual dropped to 160.07 USD (about -5.42%); multiple posts said after-hours shares slid from about 158 USD to the 142160 USD range, down 6.8%9.12%.
Unconfirmed
- Neither Nvidia nor Huang has responded officially; whether the ouster will actually happen, and whether the board actually met, rest solely on the WSJ report.
- The "Chinese spy" allegation is only a secondhand account in the report, with no judicial or corporate verification.
Why it matters
- Huang founded Nvidia and built it into the world's most valuable company; his fate directly affects the global AI compute landscape. David Sacks argued that if Nvidia is taken over by a "managerial class" it will repeat Google's mistakes, XFreeze and others called the move foolish, Gary Marcus and kimmonismus weighed in from different angles, and "China won" narratives spread on social media.
- From the scoop to near-resolution took only a week; if true, this would be the most closely watched tech governance event of 2026.
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