Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/gettyimages-2194622930.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand raised in the air, to the claps and cheers of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337899/nvidias-ces-keynote-isnt-in-a-ballroom-its-in-a-stadium-and-that-stadium-is-packed">a 14,000-person arena absolutely packed</a> with influencers and fans, their faces awash in blue glow, as he made his entrance in a black leather jacket that shimmered in the stadium's lights.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Few are cheering for Jensen Huang now. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1031689/jensen-huang-nvidia-ceo-resigns">He has left Nvidia</a> after seemingly enabling <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1032069/jensen-huang-resignation-affair-chips-smuggling">two chip smuggling scandals</a> and allegedly having <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1032339/lets-talk-about-the-nvidia-shitshow">three extramarital affairs</a>, including one with an alleged Chinese spy at the same time he was mingling with President Donald Trump.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The world is watching to see <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1031063/jensen-huang-ai-race-us-china-spy">if …</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1033781/nvidia-jensen-huang-last-visionary-showman-founder-ceo">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>