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Jensen Huang’s Ouster From Nvidia Could Complicate Billions in Philanthropic Giving
Huang, the company’s co-founder, and his wife oversee a charitable foundation with about $9 billion in assets.
Listen · 3:01 min - Share full article - - Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, at a gala event in Santa Monica, Calif., in April. Jensen Huang was just becoming one of America’s biggest philanthropists before his departure as the chief executive of Nvidia. With an estimated net worth of about $145 billion, he and his wife, Lori, had built one of the country’s largest foundations, with about $9 billion in assets.
Huang said this week that he had been unfaithful to his wife, acknowledging an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence has determined was a Chinese spy. The Times then reported that he had another affair with an Nvidia executive who reports to him. Nvidia said on Thursday morning that Mr.
Huang was resigning from the company he had led for 33 years. The fate of the foundation, which the couple started in 2007 and oversee together, is not clear. Huang is the foundation’s president, and Mr.
