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Jensen Huang Basically Lit More Than $1 Trillion on Fire in Less Than a Month

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Jensen Huang Basically Lit More Than $1 Trillion on Fire in Less Than a Month

On Thursday morning, Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang resigned from the company that had become, in many ways, synonymous with its chief executive.

Less than an hour later, when the markets opened, Nvidia’s stock had lost roughly $546 billion in market value. Though it has rebounded somewhat, the last weeks of scandal—including a reported second affair with an Nvidia employee—have tanked the chip maker’s valuation by more than $1 trillion.

Huang’s very public downfall began in late October, when the The New York Times reported that the CEO had a “close relationship” with Alice Huang, a former executive at the Singapore-based chip buyer Megaspeed and alleged asset of China’s Ministry of State Security. (The two are not known to be related.) At that time, Nvidia’s market cap was around $5.2 trillion.

On November 8, Nvidia announced it was investigating its CEO, after Jensen publicly acknowledged the affair. By the following morning, roughly $1 trillion had been erased since the scandal started.

If you hang out with a certain type of person who thinks of themselves as a day trader, they might have talked about “buying the dip” over drinks last weekend. If you believe Nvidia can thrive without Huang, there’s still time! The dip has dipped even further. But the early consensus seems to be that this could be more of a prolonged plunge.

“Huang is irreplaceable,” Ryan Fedasiuk, a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for American Innovation, told WIRED last week.



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