Jensen Huang and the End of the Founder Fairy Tale
WIRED's Backchannel newsletter by Lauren Goode and Steven Levy reports that Nvidia's Jensen Huang resigned after an investigation into his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset, with longtime CFO Colette Kress becoming interim CEO, and argues his control of the story — the immigrant founder lore, the storytelling ethos — has shattered. Goode recounts her rocky 2024 SIGGRAPH interview with Huang and his lobbying of the Trump administration to loosen chip export controls.
