11 Silicon Valley tech founders who were cast out from the companies they helped build

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO following an extramarital affair scandal. He's not the only founder to be kicked out of his own company. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Sam Altman have also been ousted from the firms they started. Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday, following an extramarital affair scandal and a board investigation into concerns that he may have been the subject of a "foreign intelligence effort." It ends his reign at the chip company he cofounded in 1993. Over 33 years, Huang oversaw Nvidia's meteoric rise from a scrappy chipmaker to a multitrillion-dollar AI powerhouse. Founders being kicked out of their own companies is more common than you might think. Huang is in good company. Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman of OpenAI are among the CEOs who have been ousted from the firms they founded. Some cases stem from minor disagreements and plunging stock prices, but some CEOs felt betrayed, launched lawsuits, or were arrested.

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