"Fall" is a bit premature. He is too valuable to the company to fire.
replyHe is definitely on his way out. Name a single F500 CEO that has ever survived an affair admission
replySergey Brin in 2013? Not technically a CEO, but comparable.
replyhttps://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...")
Every single google exec has had extreme sex issues.
replyAndy Rubin was forced out for forcing blowjobs from many people at Google.
Eric Schmidt has always fucked/funded twenty year olds including Dario's own wife!!
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replyIt’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?
replyWould 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
replyJeff Bezos?
replyNo longer CEO of Amazon
replyHe resigned many years after the affair became public
replyHe did have to give up a large chunk of equity in that divorce
replyDid he or was it already MacKenzie Scott‘s as she was Amazon’s co-founder?
replyMackenzie Scott was a bookkeeper in Amazon's early days while married to Jeff Bezos but I don't think she is universally recognized as a cofounder of Amazon. This has come up before on this site and I personally don't care one way or another. Her stake is from the divorce, not from options granted as part of employment or investment...
replyI 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, ...?
replyIs Bill Gates in this club? What about dear leader before he was president and just a CEO?
replyAye. 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.
replyIt is important when it's inside a nation state spy (allegedly)
replyElon Musk
replyHe survived the whole SEC thing, I think tesla board realized that the stock was already in trouble and him leaving would make a bad situation worse, when they needed to raise money. This was in 2019, before Tesla's huge post-Covid turnround.
replyThis one is good, I'll grant this an honorable mention. My instinct here is to say that serial unmarried "bachelors" / IVF enthusiasts don't count in the same way as a Jensen or a bank CEO type.
replyEverything is possible. But I agree it's too early to call. But still...
replyNo one is immune when it comes to a public company. Private is a different matter.
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