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Elon Musk has said it “would be an honor” to hire Jensen Huang, at risk of being fired as Nvidia’s CEO after reports he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy tanked the chipmaker’s share price.
The world’s richest man replied to a post on his social media platform X from a financial blog called Zerohedge appealing to him to take on Huang, 63, if he is ultimately let go by the company he founded in 1993, whose products are powering the current global AI boom.
“That would be an honor,” the SpaceX and Tesla boss wrote in response.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia’s board of directors was meeting late Wednesday to decide Huang’s fate following the reports about his personal life. The company’s shares fell approximately 9 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday, knocking approximately $350 billion from its value.
The executive sent a memo to Nvidia employees Sunday admitting he had been unfaithful to his wife and saying he was “deeply sorry” for the hurt he had caused without going into details.
U.S. intelligence warned former Megaspeed director Alice Huang — who is no relation but with whom the tech boss has been pictured on a number of…
