Jensen Huang | AI rainmaker meets his Waterloo

“In another life, Jensen Huang might have been a teacher,” says Tae Kim in his book The Nvidia Way. Whether he likes it or not, the Nvidia co-founder’s reality has now been reset, forcing him back to his idiosyncratic style of solving problems: diagramming on a whiteboard. But this time he won’t get a clean start as the scandal-hit former chief of Nvidia will face intense scrutiny over his affair with a Chinese businesswoman who is at the centre of an alleged spy scandal.Within days of reports emerging about Mr. Huang’s affair with Alice Huang, The New York Times reported a second relationship, with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s head of healthcare and one of his direct reports. By then, the controversy had come to a head, forcing Mr. Huang to resign as CEO of Nvidia, the company he had built from scratch. Published - November 15, 2026 01:15 am IST