‘I’m a piece of s---’: Jensen Huang’s last hours as Nvidia CEO

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during Nvidia Live at CES 2026 ahead of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 5, 2026. | AFP-JIJI

Nov 13, 2026

At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted.

After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia’s chief executive officer, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huang’s usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he’d started using phrases like “whatever” and “I don’t care.”

For the decades he spent building Nvidia into a multitrillion-dollar AI chip behemoth, Huang was famous for his attention to the tiniest of details, from chip architecture to the compensation packages of even the most junior employees at the company. Now, in the eyes of the people in the room, he had given up.

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