People care for financial results (the recent 4% stock dip after the scandal means nothing, Nvidia does dips like that 10-15 times every year based on various news).
replyAnd almost all of big CEOs sleep with stuff or not-their-wives. Many do worse, think certain private islands...
Let's start holding all of them accountable. Then it'll be fair.
replyAccountable for what? Cheating? It’s not illegal and hence none of your business.
replyEvading sanctions.
replyIf maybe Jensen set foot in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, or another ME country they could stone him for adultery. Thank god we don't have these religious laws in the US -- well I hope we don't..
reply> No one of character can respect or trust him anymore.
replyAre there a lot of these types of people at the top?
Shit, can we even claim people gambling on stocks are "of character"?
There's a lot of gray here. I don't care that he chose to probably capitulate his marriage, but it does matter that he is somewhere between a honeypot buffoon or commiting light treason.
There’s no way at least 50% of SP500 CEO’s never had an affair haha
replyI, a shareholder who the board is supposed to represent, respect and trust him as a business person. I don't care for his private choices, but quite frankly I really don't care either. I'm not his wife. And I don't think any spy convinced him to sell more chips he is chips maxxing to the extreme all by himself.
replySo when 98th woman births Elon’s 69th child we’ll draw the line and get him out as CEO? Or elect a Commander-in-Chief (twice) who F’ed porn stars while his wife was pregnant?
replyTotally fine to want those people away from positions of responsibility too — I certainly do. Why assume people are arguing for an exceptionally harsh treatment here? (Even though, as the CEO of a public company whose influence on the future arguably outweighs both Musk and Trump, it would be merited)
replyJust because he isn't as bad as Elon Musk doesn't mean he's okay
replyIsn't this a strawman? Plenty of people want Trump out, but impeachment works differently
replydo they want Trump out because of his infidelities or for other reasons? even Evangelicals voted for him (twice) so I don’t think it is him F’ing everything that moves
replyI mean I want trump out for his infidelities as well as allegations of sexual assaults even on minors. I want him out for these reasons and more. I believe also lost the majority vote both times. The US elections being a convoluted mess with tons of corruption and Israeli influence is hardly a reason for why Jensen Huang shouldn’t suffer the consequence for his actions. I say fire him.
replyhe definitely did not lose popular vote in 2024 though… I don’t have a problem if he is fired but questioning why same standard isn’t applied generally? if he is fired, do we start a country-wide crusade to oust every horny CEO?
replyI said majority vote not popular vote. I don’t blame you for being confused. If Jensen gets fired it won’t be merely due to his unfaithfulness. He put the company at risk by literally screwing a spy and allowing china to bypass export controls.
replyWhat do you mean "lost the majority vote"? More people voted for him than anyone else, and he got a majority of the electoral college.
replyLook up plurality vs majority.
replyIn American English "majority" can mean "plurality", it's a bit weird! [1] Saying "lost the majority vote" when you mean "won the election with under 50%" is bound to confuse people.
reply[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority definition 1.c
I am not making this up, majority vote and popular vote are literal phrases used to describe the results. Please look it up. I agree it’s confusing.
replyI know you're not making it up, "plurality" is a real word and in a technical context "majority" can be contrasted with "plurality". But even then you really wouldn't say "lost the majority vote" for someone who won an election (try searching for that phrase: none of the hits are people using it like you are).
replyThe majority vote is being used often to indicate whether or not majority actually voted in a given President. In the USA however, majority vote win happens infrequently nowadays, only 4 out of last 9 elections with winner won a majority vote. so perhaps unfair to bring that up, the 2024 was an absolute blowout by USA's standards
replyWhy are you assuming your interlocutor is in favor of Elon or Trump holding their positions? If anything, one should assume he is consistently against all three men being in positions of influence.
reply>Why are you assuming your interlocutor is in favor of Elon or Trump holding their positions?
replyDoesn't matter if he is. He presents it as some kind of big issue that "No one of character can respect or trust him anymore", which even if true had almost zero impact for all other CEOs doing the same and worse.
Most CEOs are fired for this. There are some exceptions sure but there are always exceptions. In reality, an affair with a subordinate is an express ticket to getting fired in Corporate America.
replyOnly if you get exposed publicly like Huang, and sometimes not even then.
replyOtherwise nobody gives a shit and it happens all the time. 1. Larry Ellison had several affairs with employees. Elon Musk with at least 1 reported by WSJ. Eric Schmidt. And those are just the biggest profile tech ones.
fair, but I don’t see any other hot stories crashing a company over a horny CEO. funny how we bring in some moral high ground selectively. if we did this as a whole there wouldn’t be many CEOs or Presidents left in their position, no?
replyCEOs of Intel, McDonalds, Nestle all fell after similar things came to light.
replyall three had explicit policies that CEOs violated. if nvidia has the same the ousting should be straight-forward. though I am sure Boards will find loophole in the policy (e.g. "she was not a direct subordinate") if they want to keep CEO around
reply>> Under Nvidia's code of conduct, employees are instructed to avoid actual or potential conflicts of interest, with "personal relationships" specifically identified as a possible source of such conflicts.
reply>> The code applies to all employees and board members and provides for disciplinary action, including termination, for violations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/report-nvidia-ceo-had...
Seems pretty clear cut
Elon is a despicable human being. But you should know his children are usually conceived via IVF, not naturally.
replySecondly, no one sane defends our pedophile president so not sure why you bring that up as supporting fact.
77,303,573 did in 2024 election
replythose were not all votes of support, like last week was mostly not about supporting democrats
replyThanks for making sure this discussion didn't pass without some classic whataboutism. You're a great service to the people on this site. Keep it up.
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