And it seems like, again today, I was reading stories about Jensen Huang of Nvidia apparently having an affair, this time with a different woman. They say this person’s name is Kimberly Powell, and she was Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare. Now, why this was kind of interesting too is because there was that previous story where the alleged mistress was, as they say, a Chinese spy. And what actually came out of this is how some people were theorizing that this alleged affair apparently happened years ago, but now, for some reason, it seems like all the media is actually reporting on this. And one of the theories is that they’re doing this to either push him out of the leadership role at Nvidia or to drop the stock price so much that people will short-sell it and then buy it back afterward.
It’s kind of interesting to think about because many times, for people who can’t compete with others in a businesslike manner, they actually resort to doing stuff like that in order to push out the leader, for example. Now, whether or not that’s the case, I don’t know, but it’s interesting to think about because initially, when I read about the mistress — the one from China, for example — that one sounded plausible, that she was a spy. I even mentioned before that whether it’s good or bad publicity, when it happens frequently like that over and over again, you have to wonder if there’s something going on, even when it’s good stories.
For example, with Elizabeth Holmes — if you remember, she was praised by every single media outlet, and it turned out to be a huge fraud. So it makes you wonder if that is the case here. I mean, that’s just a challenge: as someone who becomes successful, you’d better be careful with everything you put out there and with the people you associate with, because you never know — people seem to be able to bring up stuff like this out of nowhere to try to, I suppose, potentially make the person sound bad. This doesn’t excuse the behavior, of course, but it’s just kind of interesting to think about.