Nvidia Employees Petition For Jensen Huang's Return (wired.com) 135
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Some Nvidia employees are calling for Jensen Huang's return even after his multiple reported extramarital affairs and abrupt resignation, according to internal correspondence reviewed by WIRED. An internal "suggestion box" post submitted before Huang's resignation by a longtime engineer at Nvidia urged the company's board to take employee sentiment into consideration prior to taking any action. The submission has attracted more than 1,600 comments since then, with several asking board members to find a way to bring back Huang.
"If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss," wrote one anonymous commenter. "We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance," wrote another. One employee went as far as sending a companywide email demanding transparency into Huang's exit. "I stand by Jensen," the staffer wrote. "Not because I believe any person is infallible, but because I refuse to believe that standing for fairness must mean standing at a distance from someone whose leadership has meant so much to us."
[...] It's been business as usual inside the company throughout this week, but Huang's resignation left many employees stunned. In the hours after, about two dozen employees posted on LinkedIn in support of Huang, with one describing their faith in his leadership as unwavering. Over the same period, WIRED couldn't identify any posts from Nvidia employees in support of his resignation. One employee who has been at Nvidia for a couple of years and wasn't authorized to speak publicly says they perceive the desire for Huang's reinstatement as widespread. They worry the company will eventually suffer without its founder at the helm and say that the board must bring him back. "Nvidia is Nvidia because of Jensen," the employee tells WIRED.
Many employees had expected a board investigation to conclude before any big changes would occur. For instance, the suggestion-box post called on the board to share its findings with employees and formally solicit their sentiment "about Jensen's continuing as our CEO." Instead, Huang left just as the inquiry had begun. Staffers are seeking to better understand why. "If America fails the man who helped build its future," the employee in the companywide email stated, "then this world does not deserve Jensen Huang."
"If you believe in the mission, bring back THE boss," wrote one anonymous commenter. "We are all humans and can make mistakes. Jensen did so many good things and he needs a second chance," wrote another. One employee went as far as sending a companywide email demanding transparency into Huang's exit. "I stand by Jensen," the staffer wrote. "Not because I believe any person is infallible, but because I refuse to believe that standing for fairness must mean standing at a distance from someone whose leadership has meant so much to us."
[...] It's been business as usual inside the company throughout this week, but Huang's resignation left many employees stunned. In the hours after, about two dozen employees posted on LinkedIn in support of Huang, with one describing their faith in his leadership as unwavering. Over the same period, WIRED couldn't identify any posts from Nvidia employees in support of his resignation. One employee who has been at Nvidia for a couple of years and wasn't authorized to speak publicly says they perceive the desire for Huang's reinstatement as widespread. They worry the company will eventually suffer without its founder at the helm and say that the board must bring him back. "Nvidia is Nvidia because of Jensen," the employee tells WIRED.
Many employees had expected a board investigation to conclude before any big changes would occur. For instance, the suggestion-box post called on the board to share its findings with employees and formally solicit their sentiment "about Jensen's continuing as our CEO." Instead, Huang left just as the inquiry had begun. Staffers are seeking to better understand why. "If America fails the man who helped build its future," the employee in the companywide email stated, "then this world does not deserve Jensen Huang."
With tears in my eyes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With tears in my eyes (Score:5, Insightful)
I am reading this. He must have been a good boss.
Or they all just want a chance to sleep with him, as their boss, too. ;-)
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He must have been a good boss.
He made them a LOT of money. They want more of it.
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That's three things.
But this is the story that keeps on giving jokes.
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Point 1: Individual states of the USA are empowered and required to keep birth records.
Point 2: The state of Hawaii says Barack Obama was born there on August 4, 1961.
Point 3: There is no Point 3. That's it. The End.
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Point 3: McCain was factually not born in the USA.
And yet was still elegible to be President because he was born of US-citizen parents, so he was a US citizen at birth. Barack Obama's mother was also a US citizen, so he qualifies under that criterion also, but didn't need to.
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an semi-adversarial country.
The biggest problem here, do you serious pronounce semi with a silent S? Em-eye? No? Then it's A, not AN.
The other problem is that there is no "semi." There are only four (4) US Adversary States. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran. That's it. Those four. There is no semi, or maybe, or a little bit; those countries are recognized by US law (and their daily actions) as being adversarial to the United States.
Re:With tears in my eyes (Score:4, Informative)
...and nailing the employees, too.
Yes, bad choices for certain. Compliance issues. But being involved in corporate espionage is a whole new level of stupidity.
And, how can I say this sensitively.
She is young and quite attractive https://technode.global/wp-con... [technode.global]
He's old, short and not terribly good looking. Money is his only plus.
And to be blunt - If he wants a little on the side, there are discrete ways of getting it. I would certainly be very skeptical if someone like her were to approach me. I'm not young either, but I have resources, am "tall enough" and reasonably fit and put together, and I'm told I have rugged good looks. But if she approached me, I'd reject her because I'd be pretty certain there was something messed up.
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It's sadly just how delusional a lot of men are. Men who are 40+ and should know better, who otherwise you would think are pretty intelligent. A lot of men (it seems including a lot at the top too, which shows they aren't so different from us proles after all) are not very introspective and genuinely believe there is something special about them that attracts women. (not the money, or in this case secrets, that they want)
Fat, bald old men with money will have these young women approach them and instead of
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It's sadly just how delusional a lot of men are. Men who are 40+ and should know better, who otherwise you would think are pretty intelligent.
I couldn't agree more. There are a lot of men who are idiots, and age usually mellows men to make better sexual decisions. Agressive CEO's might have a tendency to "take" what they want and not use discretion. There is another aspect however. Unless the men involved raped the women involved, the women gave consent to have the fling and the sex. And the women are aware that there are men who will have sex with them if they consent.
This is in no way not condemning the men. Huang is old enough that he shoul
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If I were him however, I'd quietly retire and lie low, he is lucky Trump is in power because he lets the rich break the law as long as they don't upset him. In 2 years when the Dem retaliation witchhunts start perhaps something else will be bigger news.
Sorry for the second post - apparently this is blowing up a bit, and might end up being treated as a true espionage security breach, that is spreading out to include members of the Trump administration. Gonna get dicey and we'll see what happens in January.
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But being involved in corporate espionage is a whole new level of stupidity.
Actually that's the least problematic thing here. If you think you're immune to a nation state spy operation then you're delusional. The truly stupid thing he did was sleep with his direct reports without reporting them internally to the board on a conflict of interest register. The spy thing is sort of irrelevant as far as corporate governance goes.
but I have resources
LOL my friend you do *not* have the resources being debated here. If you did you wouldn't be on Slashdot, you'd be on the cover of TIME magazine.
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This isn't Europe, there isn't any such "register" that allows the company to ignore those relationships.
Documenting it creates a requirement that they take action.
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But being involved in corporate espionage is a whole new level of stupidity.
Actually that's the least problematic thing here. If you think you're immune to a nation state spy operation then you're delusional.
I've had enough counter-espionage reports. They are out there, every nation uses women to compromise men. To say I'm personally not immune sorta kinda true, just like no computer system is perfectly secure. But I know what the deal is.
The truly stupid thing he did was sleep with his direct reports without reporting them internally to the board on a conflict of interest register. The spy thing is sort of irrelevant as far as corporate governance goes.
Pay attention to the news. AI, which has military and defense implications with high level espionage and crimes involved This whole debacle is expanding daily. Banging a few women at work is salacious stuff, but in the big scheme of things, it happens every day, and pales i
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I don't think nailing employees was the reason. I suspect it's the cover.
Nobody gives a rat's ass about the private lives of CEOs for the most part unless he was actively harassing women or giving them unearned promotions. Nothing has come out suggesting either. But the allegations he passed on secrets to a Chinese Spy is far, far, more concrete.
Re: With tears in my eyes (Score:2)
It will over the next news cycle or two. Doesn't matter what happens to him in the end. The fundamentals are solid either way. Nobody is going to stop buying Nvidia chips at well above prior market rates just because they got a new CEO. Especially when they're like crack to Russia and China.
CEOs can be such flawed creatures, but when they deliver results...they deliver results. Ones like him are incredibly hard to replace. You don't post a job listing, you don't accept applications. You create a short list,
Failing to honor commitments (Score:5, Insightful)
This isn't "America failing the man", this is the man "failing to honor commitments" and then society viewing the company through the lens of what the company is that allows a person such as this at it's helm.
It's always more than just the surface level issue and these people seem to fail to recognize that.
Re:Failing to honor commitments (Score:5, Insightful)
No moral failing is so profound, no travesty so great, that it cannot be overlooked if doing so will insulate one's investments from the horrors of mediocrity.
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when you're done beating it, please put that dead horse back on the pile with the rest of the Fox News scapegoats (and remember to wash your hands with soap)
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Re: Failing to honor commitments (Score:2)
society viewing the company through the lens of what the company is that allows a person such as this at it's helm.
s/company/country/g
If I ever saw a double standard...
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This isn't "America failing the man", this is the man "failing to honor commitments" and then society viewing the company through the lens of what the company is that allows a person such as this at it's helm.
And his village in Taiwan already removed the shrine they'd built to him.
Banging a spy... Haha, make a movie about him. Wait, what?! A Chinese spy?! He's a traitor to two countries with one act.
Beat me harder daddy (Score:3, Interesting)
This whole story stinks. I believe in the idea that he slept with reports, but he also just coincidentally had an affair with someone who was in a position to receive controlled parts and it was announced the day after Trump shorted NVDA? Too many coincidences.
Re:Beat me harder daddy (Score:5, Informative)
Trump knew for an entire year [forbes.com] about the Jensen/spy situation; Jensen confessed to it, got defensive when asked about China, and there's plenty of photographic documentation that it existed. There's no coincidences here; it's routine for the US President to be get advance notice of something major before it goes public, and the blatant insider trading is just normal behavior for Trump.
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Jensen... got defensive when asked about China
He knew his home town in Taiwan was going to take away his shrine. He thought everybody would believe she was from Singapore!
Re:They all cash in (Score:4, Insightful)
Name another president that has traded like this. Just one.
You will not be able to, and you will (yet again) run away from a thread where your BS was challenged.
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I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a good chance this will actually be on the way out. The new cohort of Democrats seized on it and made it a major issue during the midterms. In total, 51 congresscritters [washingtontimes.com] signed a letter demanding it, and both Jeffries and Schumer have described it as a priority for the new session.
You'll have to get something new to moan about! Won't that be fun?
To think, an entire genre of low-effort knee-jerk Slashdot comment might become obsolete soon. I never thought I'd see it in
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This is slashdot, don't expect our average effort level to increase just because we're out of grits.
An entire genre of crap?! How many Libraries of Congress full of crap do we have left? And how many cheesy poofs is that?
Joking aside, it seems unlikely they could pass an effective reform here. They won't have 60 votes in the Senate, they certainly wouldn't be able to over-ride a veto, and it's not close enough to budget-related to use reconciliation.
The only way it passes is if, in two years, the Democrats
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What do you expect? "Person X is a spy for country Y" rarely comes with any detail, even when it's blatantly true. Intelligence work is by definition secretive and probabilistic. Nobody's gonna give you a blow-by-blow Ian Fleming novel about an active investigation.
To be clear about what we actually do know about the "spy" label: members of the US Congress (on appropriate committees, etc) apparently received a memo from the US intelligence community that speculated she may have been recruited by the Chinese
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Too many coincidences.
This isn't a coincidence. This is snowball reporting. None of this happened at the same time, it just was uncovered at the same time due to the incredibly attention he was getting. Turns out if you're a womaniser and someone starts digging then a whole lot of "coincidences" appear. File this one under "N" in the library for no-shit-sherlock.
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Has he done anything Elon Musk has not also done?
I hope you don't think that's some kind of "flex."
Two misbehaving multibillionaires do not mutually justify their behavior.
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Yeah, he only owned a few percent of Nvidia. Much easier to get voted out when you're not voting half the shares yourself.
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If you say you are one thing then you are another, the trust is lost; you have to live up to that image.
Elon Musk has not nor has ever crafted that image
Kinda beside the point (Score:5, Insightful)
The real point is the tremendous risk his behavior created for the company. Diddling a subordinate alone creates a mega-millions liability. Another affair with an exec at a customer company is another liability. The fact that said company was (allegedly) helping evade US sanctions, and said exec was (allegedly) a Chinese asset is a nigh-unquantifiable risk. It maybe wasn't a fatal risk to the company (NVidia is too big to fail at this point), but certainly could have wiped out, say, 50% of the company value had things gone sideways. We really don't know the full extent of it yet.
"We all make mistakes" is letting him off the hook tremendously. Exceptionally competent, valuable, practically irreplaceable employees and executives have been summarily terminated for far less.
Re:Kinda beside the point (Score:5, Insightful)
"We all make mistakes" is letting him off the hook tremendously.
This is also true in the sense that (spy shit not withstanding) he's not going to prison over this, won't be broke and will always be a minimum 9 figure individual, he still controls a huge amount of shares in the company, I imagine (correct me here) he also sits on the board and unless he was a knowing participant in the spy shit he will sit there forever.
My prediction: He will chill out for like a year behind the scenes then you'll see him funding/founding a new startup. He will make a return visit to All In podcast where they will slob him and assuage him he was just a smol bean and we should welcome him back. Then he pulls a Jobs and NVidia buys his new company.
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he also sits on the board
Consider yourself corrected: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/... [nvidia.com] He is no longer a member of the board (not that that makes anyone immune from anything). Board members are just as easy to fire as CEOs, give or take one vote.
he still controls a huge amount of shares in the company
You can be corrected there too. He owns 3.5% of the company with no dual-class voting structure, which is to say he controls fuck all. I mean if anything he's Blackrock's bitch since they own closer to 10%. This isn't Meta we're talking about. Jensen Huang is an employee, not a dictator.
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*was an employee.
bitch and chips (Score:2)
The fact that said company was (allegedly) helping evade US sanctions, and said exec was (allegedly) a Chinese asset is a nigh-unquantifiable risk.
this "nigh-unquantifiable risk" part is complete bogus, based on the story that china needs that tech and would do anything for it. china had actually forbidden the use of nvidia chips. they've been offered to them by trump personally as a big gesture which they flat out and unceremoniously rejected, which is very un-chinese attitude: they could simply have bought a few batches just to keep them happy. not interested. huang too was pulling his hair out for having lost the chinese market, publicly. there was
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Everything you said is a lie, though.
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Re: Kinda beside the point (Score:3)
"We all make mistakes" is letting him off the hook tremendously.
They would have fired my ass if I was involved in even a tenth of what went on. (I worked there for 15 years). HR would have pointed out the employee handbook I signed and the training on EC and sexual harassment (California SB 1343) I received. I would have gotten my final paycheck, no severance, and invested RSUs would have been canceled.
Obviously ICs and management live by different rules in the corporate world. But I still find the hypocrisy annoying to watch.
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The Cult of the One Good CEO.
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The real point is the tremendous risk his behavior created for the company. Diddling a subordinate alone creates a mega-millions liability. Another affair with an exec at a customer company is another liability.
The challenge, of course, is that when you're in that position, everyone at the company is your subordinate, so if you want a relationship, your choice are execs at other companies or a subordinate. The guy is married, so he shouldn't have had another relationship at all, but if we ignore that moral question for the moment and pretend that he was single at the time, you've just eliminated pretty much every kind of relationship he could realistically have, and that bothers me a bit.
IMO, when someone in a po
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Only nvidia employees were his subordinates. Sure, from a google search it looks like that would eliminate 42k people from his dating pool but he wouldn't be limited to CEOs at other companies... in fact there's less conflict of interest if it is a mail clerk rather than a c suite exec at another company if there's a chance there'll be business between them.
But practically speaking, the most common ways to meet a future spouse organically (as opposed to through dating apps) are meeting through friends, meeting at bars, and meeting at work. If you're at that level of a company, your friends mostly are as well, so you're mostly going to meet other execs, and Nvidia sells to almost everybody, so your rules put all of them off the table. You're unlikely to have time to go to bars after work, so that's probably out. And anyone you meet at work will be your subor
Re: Kinda beside the point (Score:2)
Just making excuses for CEOs not being able to follow the law, you mean.
Fuck off with that shit, it's morally bankrupt.
The people you are talking about are rich as fuck, they can afford to meet people on international vacations. No matter what I will not cry for the fucking billionaires, nor lick their boots.
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If your "friends" are all people who work for you that you could fire, people who are hoping you'll give them a promotion...
It means you have no friends.
I guess this is one of the reasons rich executives play a lot of golf. With their friends. Who work somewhere else.
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Assuming that all the relationships were consensual, from a company ethics perspective, one person, or the other, can always resign their position, in order to remove the conflict of interest / power disparity.
Realistically though, I don't see anyone giving up a career with a multi-figure salary and benefits (by resigning) in order to have a fling. What is more likely to happen is one or the other person gets fired by the company for being a distraction and potential source of liability when they get found
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This is slashdot, that's what they spent 25 years nurturing sock puppets for... to defend their power/rape fantasies and save the world!
Money cults (Score:2, Interesting)
But only the ones... (Score:3)
Harassment impacts those who did not participate (Score:2)
But only the ones.he didn't fuck.
Didn't get the better performance reviews, choice assignments, mentoring, and other discretionary rewards? That's one of the problems with sexual harassment. Those that don't participate can be negatively impacted too.
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Not to mention: They're probably ugly.
Don't overestimate the more attractive, pretty privilege can lead to complacency and less effort put into things. And pretty privilege fades with time.
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Not to mention: They're probably ugly.
-1000 Irrelevant, even if it were true.
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But only the ones.he didn't fuck.
Didn't get the better performance reviews, choice assignments, mentoring, and other discretionary rewards? That's one of the problems with sexual harassment. Those that don't participate can be negatively impacted too.
Could, sure, but there are also very easy ways to mitigate that risk. You can have someone else write that person's performance reviews and manage that person.
Also, when that person is a VP, there's not a whole lot of manager discretion when it comes to performance reviewing, choice assignments, mentoring, or discretionary rewards anyway. Each VP is in charge of a specific area, and the choice of who becomes CEO later is made by the board, not the outgoing CEO, so it's not like he has any say over who get
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But only the ones.he didn't fuck.
Didn't get the better performance reviews, choice assignments, mentoring, and other discretionary rewards? That's one of the problems with sexual harassment. Those that don't participate can be negatively impacted too.
Could, sure, but there are also very easy ways to mitigate that risk. You can have someone else write that person's performance reviews and manage that person.
In general these people are direct reports. Are you saying that in general management should inform HR of the relationship and have the alternate protocols you mention implemented?
Also choice assignments, mentoring, and other discretionary rewards can fall outside of such direct management.
But either way, he could put it in the hands of the board, and that would be the end of the problem.
Yes, and he'd likely still be CEO if he had.
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Didn't get the better performance reviews, choice assignments, mentoring, and other discretionary rewards? That's one of the problems with sexual harassment. Those that don't participate can be negatively impacted too.
On the one hand, I want to say his fooling around is nobody's business other than him and his spouse.
OTOH, there's a reason for harassment rules and we ought not ignore them because the harasser is successful and well liked. That's what promotes a culture of rules only apply to some people.
Finally, if it turns out there's national security issues, well, that's an issue for the board and prosecutors. The board especially might decide the company doesn't want the bad PR more than they want Huang's expertise.
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...or maybe the ones he did. Who knows ?!?
A mistake? (Score:2, Insightful)
He slept with three other women who were not his wife. That's three "mistakes". Three strikes and you're out.
If you can't honor your marriage contract, what business contract are you also going to violate?
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There's always an excuse.
He that is good at making excuses, is generally good for nothing else.
Re:A mistake? (Score:4, Interesting)
You use the word "excuse" as if he needed one; as if "sleep[ing] with three other women who were not his wife" was intrinsically bad. It isn't (not *intrinsically*). It entirely depends on the nature of his relation with his wife, and private details we don't know and are none of our business.
Also "good for nothing else" is obviously false, as the guy was very good at being the boss of one of the largest companies in the world which, in terms of the general population, is an exceptionally rare ability.
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OTOH, if he knew, or had reason to suspect, that one of them was "a Chinese asset"... that's a different matter. (But *was* she? It's suspected, but Singapore seems to think the US didn't want her investigated.)
Muddy waters. He definitely acted in an ethically questionable manner, but whether is was worse than that is unclear. (Personally, I suspect he did, but the public evidence I've seen doesn't support that extreme a judgement.)
How we know (Score:2)
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He slept with three other women who were not his wife. That's three "mistakes". Three strikes and you're out.
If you can't honor your marriage contract, what business contract are you also going to violate?
That wasn't his mistake. His mistake was purely business contractual. He didn't disclose employee relationships in a conflict of interest register to the board. It's not against any corporate rules to sleep around, and no one gives a fuck about marriage contracts. He directly violated company rules.
Stonks (Score:5, Insightful)
My guess would be its all employees with vested stock options signing this petition.
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I hope they didn't sign their name. They have all effectively said that fundamental compliance and reporting rules around conflicts of interest internal to the company should be ignored. There's few things that in an office situation could warrant an instant dismissal but this is actually one of them.
It's about the $$$ (Score:2)
These employees care only about their stock options, holdings, etc., shows that their ethics align nicely.
The guy slept with the enemy, boinked two direct reports... clearly showing lack of judgement, and willingness to ignore corporate rules. I love all of apologists justifying it for Huang, but probably are the same people who cheered when the CEO and HR head got caught at the Coldplay concert and they had to deal with the fallout.
But it's ok for Huang, why exactly? Oh yeah, people's values and ethics sad
Re: It's about the $$$ (Score:2)
I know multiple employees that had $1.5m or more wiped from their retirement savings since October. I definitely should have sold and accepted that I would have owed the tax man. I failed to follow: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Eating 30% on a stock that is going to be difficult to sell right now. Versus paying around taxes on anything above my cost basis, perhaps only 15% or so
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If you haven't sold the stock, you haven't lost the money yet. It may well recover, at least largely.
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The only question is whether the stock will go up from now or not. If this scandal is the only problem, it will eventually go up. If people stop buying video cards, that is when you should worry.
"Nvidia Employees" (Score:2)
They targeted the CEO, how many others? (Score:2)
Re: They targeted the CEO, how many others? (Score:2)
He's generally very likable and charismatic. One of my fondest career memories was during chip bring up late at night he stopped by the lab and was excited with us when the display controlled came to life and Android started loading up on the monitor.
We all make mistakes... (Score:2)
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IIUC, that hasn't actually been proven. It seems quite probable, but that's not the same thing. It also appears that she is only "a suspected Chinese asset", which can mean a whole bunch of wildly different things.
But she definitely was the agent of a company he was doing business with.
This has to be manufactured (Score:2)
or the 'employee's' are flat out stupid. This guy wiped out a 1/3 of nvidia's value and you want him back? Your stock isn't coming back if he comes back. This guy is turning nvidia into his own personal harem and playing a shell game with company finances. Sooner or later the value will be gone. If the 'mission' is con the world to promote nvidia for your stock gain then, yeah, I could see why you'd want him back. I'm also placing serious doubt on this 'survey', it sounds too manufactured. Most employees t
Ahah no. (Score:2)
Sorry your stock portfolio is going to tank.
He was lying to the public and maybe his wife (Score:2)
My take (Score:2)
This is my take on it from sifting through lots of stuff. Take from it what you will (it is mostly speculative):
1) Huang is a VERY effective CEO.
2) He is also very well-liked by his employees and people who work with him.
3) His departure from NVidia will hurt them greatly.
4) He probably didn't know she was a spy and didn't disclose anything useful to her/China.
5) This outcome is perhaps exactly what China wanted- a scandal to get an extremely effective CEO out of NVidia to hurt the company.
6) After the inv
The CEO Trap (Score:3)
These employees are fools (Score:2)
Jensen is going to be called in front of a congressional committee to testify, particularly with the Democrats in power now. There will be investigations about how much he knew about the supposed smuggling, and if they find evidence he did, he's facing criminal indictments. Meanwhile he's probably going to go through a major divorce after this that could cost him $80B, or less depending on where NVIDIA's valuation ends up after this.
The man is in no pos
Deja Poo. (Score:2)
History repeats. OpenAI and employees threatening to walk if Altman wasn't brought back.
This will be a first (Score:2)
Not a first time that a tech CEO was re-instated after a board booting them.
A first time that a tech stock bubble was burst by a CEO's dick.
So yeah, maybe bringing him back is the right thing to do from the money's point of view.
How many of these employees has Huang shagged? (Score:2)
Re:Stockholm syndrome? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Stockholm syndrome?"
Not quite, Stockholder Syndrome.
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No, it's quite sane (Score:2)
Job performance is not the only thing that is important. Upholding company policy also matters. Otherwise the C-suite poisons the company culture, and the whole fish rots, starting from the head.
Now several NVIDIA employees are asking for Huang to get a "do-over." IDK but it seems to me he's had a few too many already. These employees should be careful what they wish for.
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when it violates HR policy
The Chinese spy is kind of iffy. But knocking boots with a subordinate is probably* definitely out.
*Can't even say that for certain without seeing the HR policy manual first. In some cases, it's only direct reports that are off limits.
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I suppose it depends on: (a) whether one can identify a conflict of interest; and (b) whether there is a way to mitigate it. Pretty difficult for direct reports to be sure, but perhaps having the subordinate's career-progress evaluated and determined by someone outside the reporting-tree would suffice. And that's next-to-impossible if the CEO is involved, because s/he is at the tap-root of the tree.