NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair with a woman whom U.S. authorities had labeled a spy has prompted the company’s board of directors to launch an investigation, though he will remain CEO for now. The incident has significantly affected the company, including a decline in NVIDIA’s stock price, and there are several possible ways to hold him accountable, including resignation. However, because Huang and his family firmly control NVIDIA, some have suggested that the company may not punish him.

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NVIDIA is a company founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem with the vision of “bringing 3D graphics to the gaming and multimedia markets.” After leaving the company in 2003, Priem also sold all the shares he held and severed all ties with it, while Huang remains president and CEO and Malachowsky remains with the company as a fellow and executive.

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One of NVIDIA’s defining characteristics is its remarkably flat organizational structure. Huang does not have his own office on the company’s premises and instead moves around, adopting a working style in which he stays in a conference room temporarily as needed. He also has around 60 direct reports and is deeply involved at various levels throughout the company. Conversely, this could also be seen as a tendency toward micromanagement, strongly interfering with subordinates’ actions as their boss.


The New York Times has pointed out that if the board of directors were to impose disciplinary measures on Huang, there is no one to lead NVIDIA in his stead, nor even an obvious candidate.

However, Huang himself is NVIDIA’s largest individual shareholder, holding just under 4% of its stock, or more than 900 million shares, while his wife, Lori Milks Huang, also heads a family foundation that manages more than 60 million shares, representing roughly 0.2% of the stock as of 2024.

Also, Huang’s son, Spencer, leads the robotics field as Director of Product Management at NVIDIA. His daughter, Madison, is Senior Director of Product Marketing in the software division, where she spends her time developing “Omniverse,” and also handles public relations and marketing. His son-in-law, Nico Caples, is involved in business development.

The Wall Street Journal has stated that, with the Huang family’s involvement in the company, NVIDIA has become a “family-run business” unlike other Silicon Valley companies. It is also said that, when his children were still young, Huang told close friends, “It has always been my dream that someday my children will run NVIDIA.”

Analysts and investors believe that Huang could be removed as CEO by the board of directors. However, analyst Dan Ives told The Guardian that Huang’s children holding important roles within the company complicate matters for the board, commenting, “The board must make its decisions independently of the ‘spider’s web’ of relationships woven by Huang and his family, but navigating this situation with the world’s attention focused on it is a daunting challenge.”