“I hope you die and put us out of our misery.” Following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation over a spy scandal, subordinates reveal his tantrums

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, 63, who resigned on November 12, 2026, terrorized company management for years and regularly staged brutal dressing-downs during hours-long meetings. This was reported by the American publication New York Post.

According to insiders, one of the most high-profile incidents occurred in February 2026 during a closed meeting with more than 30 top Nvidia executives. At the time, Huang unexpectedly lashed out at Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations Jay Puri, who oversaw sales and business development.

“I hope you get the flu and you get worse,” Huang told his deputy in front of stunned colleagues, before adding: “I hope you die and put us all out of our misery.”

Puri endured the insults in silence and later transitioned into the role of senior advisor to the company. As one witness to the meeting noted, everyone present was used to the CEO yelling at people, but following the death wish, a tense silence fell over the room.

Throwing bottles 

The situation was exacerbated by Nvidia’s unusual corporate structure, where more than 60 top executives reported directly to Huang. Employees are astonished that stories about his outbursts of rage at the Santa Clara, California headquarters never leaked to the press before his public downfall.

The outlet’s sources cite several other episodes. During a three-hour meeting in 2025 in the presence of about 40 employees, Huang told one of the sales leaders: “You don’t understand shit about my business.” In another meeting, he ejected an executive who was attending a meeting with the head of the company for the first time, shouting: “Are you smirking at me? I see only dead faces… Get out of here!”

And during another session at headquarters, the billionaire hurled a water bottle at one of the directors in a fit of rage.

Huang behaved similarly toward Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, who has now temporarily taken the helm of the corporation following his resignation. At an August meeting, he rudely interrupted her presentation and compared Kress to a “deer caught in headlights.”

The businessman did not mince words with external partners either. At a conference in Berlin, seated at a table with six chief executive officers of cloud companies that purchase Nvidia chips, Huang told a parable about a street soup vendor in Japan.

According to him, after waiting in a long line, he tasted the delicious soup and asked for a second serving, but the cook refused because otherwise there would not be enough food for the other people in line. Finishing the story, Huang told the corporate executives: “He is a better businessman than all of you. You don’t create value for my products.”

The billionaire’s biographer Stephen Witt, author of the book “The Thinking Machine,” wrote in a column for The New York Times on Thursday that Huang’s public persona, with stories of dishwashing in his youth and generous tipping at roadside Denny’s diners, served merely as a front:

“It was necessary to mask his hubris. He could hardly tolerate dissent and was incapable of open debate. If you challenged him on even a minor detail, it was like lighting a fuse: the moment you stood your ground, he would explode and yell at you for your idiocy.”

Ties to a Chinese spy 

The collapse of Jensen Huang’s career came on Thursday, November 12, when he was forced to step down after admitting to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang—a woman sharing his surname whom U.S. intelligence agencies suspect of spying for China. For more than a year, the businessman had misled Nvidia’s top management and for several days publicly denied the relationship until admitting the truth. According to media reports, the head of the corporation had secret affairs with at least three women overall, including Nvidia’s Vice President of Healthcare, Kimberly Powell.

In Nvidia’s official press release regarding the departure of its founder, not a single quote from him was included.

Huang has now hired the elite law firm Paul, Weiss and is preparing to testify before the U.S. Congress.

American lawmakers are demanding details regarding Nvidia’s cooperation with the Singapore-based artificial intelligence company Megaspeed, which is headed by Alice Huang.

U.S. authorities have long suspected this firm of smuggling cutting-edge American chips into China in circumvention of sanctions, though the company itself denies the allegations.

Lawmakers also intend to question Jensen Huang and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about their role in holding back strict export controls that could have prevented Alice Huang’s outfit from gaining access to strategic equipment.

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