Biographer on Jensen Huang's fall: arrogance, NVIDIA's silence culture and two affairs
basedjensen · x · 2026-11-13
Stephen Witt, author of the Huang biography 'The Thinking Machine,' writes in NYT that Huang's ouster stemmed from at least two affairs — one with Alice Huang, whose Singapore data centers allegedly relayed $7B in smuggled chips to China, another with direct report Kimberly Powell. He describes NVIDIA's culture of silence, Huang's intolerance of dissent (hour-long tirades), and a carefully cultivated humility persona.
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