Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair must be the costliest fling in human history – and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble bursts
One thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The “cognitive elite”, to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries”. Long before they got private jets, what fuelled these boys was faith in their own brainpower. As a teenager, Jensen Huang wooed his future wife, Lori, thus: “If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you you’ll get straight As.”
Lord Byron: I believe it’s your move.
Which raises the question: if you’re that clever, why act so dumb? At last week’s midterms, it was Musk who backed Team Trump to the tune of $446m. With unhedged bets like that, why wouldn’t you want him gambling with your livelihood? This week, it is 63-year-old Huang and his affair with a much younger woman, who the US government strongly suspects is a Chinese spy. That scandal wiped more than $400bn off the value of his company in just two days, making it the costliest fling in human history. But who knows? Perhaps she loved the centibillionaire for his mind…
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