Jensen Huang’s unraveling “is not a technology story,” Stephen Witt, the author of a biography of the ousted Nvidia C.E.O., writes. “It is a timeless tale of masculine hubris, of a man undone by reckless overconfidence. Some things never change.”
The news of Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang’s affair “has shaken not only Silicon Valley and geopolitics,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “It also has been an earthquake for the leather-jacket-wearing community.”
“In my experience (with precious few exceptions), young men want to be good men,” our columnist David French writes. “They want not just to be admired, but to be admirable — to be worthy of any honor or praise they receive.”