Jensen Huang’s ouster likely traces back to Nvidia’s risky business practices more than his personal life

Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 13, 2026 GPT-Image-2.6 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Nvidia built a risky credit program under Jensen Huang that offered AI cloud providers billions of dollars in guarantees to help them buy Nvidia chips, with Huang’s son-in-law Nico Caprez pushing it forward, the Wall Street Journal reports. The largest deal involved talks with OpenAI over a $250 billion guarantee. Interim CEO and former CFO Colette Kress cut the commitment in half after raising internal questions about how the guarantees were valued. Huang reportedly called Kress “a deer in the headlights” at an internal meeting. …