In the end, the biggest risk Jensen Huang faced for Nvidia was himself
A Business Insider profile traces Jensen Huang from toilet-scrubbing immigrant to Nvidia founder — cofounded in 1993 out of a San Jose Denny's, built on a decades-long bet on GPUs that fueled the AI boom and lifted its market value from $360 billion to $5 trillion — before revelations of extramarital affairs undid his family-man image. Huang admitted on November 8, 2026, to being "unfaithful" to his wife of 40 years and resigned November 12 with CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, amid a reported relationship with Alice Huang, suspected by US intelligence of spying for China, and roughly $500 billion in lost market value.
