Jensen Huang's resignation could wipe as much as a trillion dollars off Nvidia, more than THREE TIMES the value of Britain's biggest company, the Daily Mail's JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS tells Deep Dive

LISTEN: Jensen Huang: Sex, Stocks and Spies - Listen to the latest Daily Mail Deep Dive podcast Published: 12:05 EST, 12 November 2026 | Updated: 12:54 EST, 12 November 2026 On the latest episode of Deep Dive, host Chris Pleasance and Deputy Business Editor John-Paul Ford Rojas unpick the extraordinary crisis engulfing Nvidia, until recently the world's most valuable company.On Sunday, chief executive Jensen Huang, 63, emailed the tech giant's 42,000 or so employees confessing he had been unfaithful to Lori, his wife of 41 years.The confession spooked investors, wiping nearly 10 per cent, some $430 billion, off Nvidia's value in just two days of trading.It appeared to lend weight to reports of a classified US intelligence memo claiming Huang was in a romantic relationship with a woman American officials believe is a Chinese spy.Today, Huang quit the company he co-founded, shortly after The New York Times reported he had also been in a relationship with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia's vice president of healthcare.Ford Rojas told Deep Dive that Huang's departure could deal a heavy blow to Nvidia's value, given he is credited with steering the company into AI. Today, Jensen Huang quit the company he co-founded, shortly after reports he had been in a relationship with Kimberly Powell (R) Nvidia's vice president of healthcare'You would like to think that a company of the scale and importance of Nvidia would not be reliant on one man,' Ford Rojas said.'But that is actually one of the problems that it's facing now. Some analysts have been saying that the departure of Jensen Huang would knock as much as 25 to 30 per cent off its value.'So we're talking about a trillion dollars.'A trillion dollar loss would be the equivalent of HSBC, Britain's biggest company, being wiped out three times over.Elsewhere in the podcast, Ford Rojas explores why China might have wanted to target Huang in an alleged honey trap.Alice Huang, the alleged mistress and suspected spy, worked for Singaporean tech firm Megaspeed, which is under investigation by the US Department of Commerce for allegedly helping China evade America's ban on advanced AI chip sales.'The whole status of what she was doing, what she intended, we don't really know,' Ford Rojas said.'It does seem likely that she might have been trying to acquire chips from Nvidia and possibly learn more about the chips that Nvidia makes. Elsewhere in the podcast, Ford Rojas explores why China might have wanted to target Huang in an alleged honey trap Alice Huang, the alleged mistress and suspected spy, worked for Singaporean tech firm Megaspeed, which is under investigation for allegedly helping China evade America's ban on advanced AI chip sales 'Or even influence Huang in terms of how he views US sanctions on China. But we just don't know. It's purely speculation at this stage.'China has dismissed the spy claim as an unsubstantiated smear.Listen to the full episode of Deep Dive now, available wherever you get your podcasts.