Polymarket odds of Jensen Huang leaving Nvidia pass 88% after new affair report

Key points

• Polymarket odds of Huang's exit jumped more than 16 percentage points in hours, peaking at 90.5% on Thursday.
• The New York Times reported on 11 Nov that Huang, 63, was involved with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia's vice president of healthcare, who reports to him.
• Nvidia shares fell nearly 10% on 11 November, days before quarterly results due on 17 Nov.

Polymarket odds of a Jensen Huang exit from Nvidia briefly climbed above 88% on 12 November, reaching 90.5%, after reports of a second alleged extramarital affair involving a direct subordinate.

Huang told the newspaper he did not think it should be talking to him directly; Nvidia and Powell declined to comment.

The report deepened a governance and national security crisis at the company. On 8 Nov, Huang emailed staff to apologise for being unfaithful to his wife after separate revelations about an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed.

Nvidia's board has opened an independent investigation led by law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, and members held late-night talks in the week of 9 November on whether to remove the co-founder, who has been CEO for 33 years.

What to watch: Nvidia's board is weighing whether to remove Huang ahead of the company's quarterly earnings report on 17 Nov.

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