Opinion | I Wrote Jensen Huang’s Biography. Here’s What Led to His Downfall.

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In a New York Times opinion piece, Stephen Witt, biographer of Jensen Huang, argues the Nvidia chief's downfall — affairs including one with his subordinate Kimberly Powell, claims that his mistress Alice Huang's data centers helped smuggle $7 billion of chips into China, and a State Department memo he says Marco Rubio oversaw — is a tale of hubris, not technology. He adds that Huang cultivated a false humility, ruled through fear, and left Nvidia a void, with Colette Kress only a stopgap.

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