Todd Henderson on Nvidia’s Spy Crisis
ICLE Academic Affiliate Todd Henderson was quoted in a TechCrunch article pertaining to Nvidia’s crisis following revelations of CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a Chinese Spy:
Henderson similarly stressed the importance of what Huang knew and when. He described two scenarios. In one, Huang hires a PR firm because an extramarital affair is embarrassing, without knowing who the woman is. In the other, he knows she is a suspected Chinese spy. “I think that’s very different,” he said. “If I were a board member and the CEO of a company with very sensitive technology was in that situation, I would be furious if they didn’t tell me.” Not telling the board that you have cancer “or that you’ve been sleeping with a Chinese spy,” said Henderson, “seems to me to be a fireable offense.”
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