Despite Denial, Trump Was Told on Trip to China About Spying on Nvidia Leader

@Northwest Thankyou for that. A frightening prospect. I'd always thought there is a very strong safety protocol based on parallel and line commands to prevent unplanned or unauthorised weapons launching.

Apart from top military leaders refusing the order, of course.

I already knew that at the height of the Cold War the USAAF sited long-range nuclear-weapons bombers and missiles in Britain, likely other countries too; and they had no intention of asking the host governments' permission to use them.


Jensen Huang needs remember that although he founded Nvidia, it is no longer his property although he presumably owns a huge stake in it. Being now publicly-listed effectively makes the shareholders its owners; and Huang and his "Vice-Presidents" qualified only by nepotism, and other Directors, their employees.

If I held or third-party managed a large block of shares in the company I would openly ask very awkward questions, and demand proper answers, including raising the prospect of the three being unsafe to control such a strategically important manufacturer.

I understand this is already happening, and much closer to home than say, a pensions-manager, could be.

(Given the international nature of money-trading, I wonder if I am a distant, minor "shareholder" of Nvidia through pensions and insurance companies' investment plans...)

HJ is the technical brains behind the business, fully qualified in electronics. The two Huang sons do have business experience but in catering, not engineering, and their roles seem more on the sales than technical side.


Having no succession planning is strange. It makes me wonder the Huang family's eventual aim.

I looked further than those details above, into the man's biography.

His name, properly, is Huang Jen-Hsun - hence "Jensen": Asian tradition places the surname before the individual's name. Huang is of Taiwanese parentage and joint Taiwanese/American citizenship, making his extra-marital fling with a citizen of the People's Republic of China, Huang Alice (no relation), seem even odder and riskier.

@ArishMell The three co-founders of Nvidia met to plan the company over breakfast and coffee at a Denny's diner at 2484 Berryessa Road in San Jose, California. I've been to that particular Denny's before that meeting.

So what happened to the other co-founders?

Chris Malachowsky: Continues at Nvidia as a co-founder and senior engineering leader, but that's mostly because no one wants to fire him. He unloaded most of his shares earlier on.

Curtis Priem: Served as Nvidia's first chief technical officer until 2003, and was the main brain. He retired, and sold all of his company shares by 2006. While holding onto a net worth of roughly $30 million.

Jensen Huang holds 3.58% of Nvidia (about 870 million shares), worth about $150Billion.

When the company was first founded, it was doing graphics chips/ This whole AI thing, pretty much fell into their laps.

One of the reasons Huang held on to his stock, and managed his position well, is his wife's involvement. She graduated from the same electrical engineering program as him, and there's a podcast, where he says he owes everything to her.

This is going to be be the most expensive divorce in history, with national security implications.

@Northwest He'snow alleged to have a second affair, but as far as I know that's still allegation.

Really, he's potentially done enormous damage to the reputation of the company even if in fact no information was lost.