Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO over extramarital affair allegations
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Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned on Thursday. This followed allegations that he had improper relationships with a Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive. The company's valuation fell back to about $4 trillion this week. Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in a booth at Denny's. The company launched the GeForce 256 in 1999, crossed a $1 trillion market cap in May 2023, and reached $5 trillion last October.
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This profile traces Jensen Huang from his first US job washing dishes at Denny's to co-founding Nvidia in 1993, whose GPUs became central to AI development and lifted the company to a $5tn valuation in October. It recounts his upbringing in Taiwan and the US, Nvidia's role in AlexNet, and his reputation as a magnetic communicator, before noting his resignation on Thursday after allegations of affairs with a Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive, with Nvidia's value falling to about $4tn.
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