Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s LinkedIn profile lists only two records of professional experience.
Huang worked as a waiter, dishwasher and busboy at the breakfast-focused restaurant chain Denny’s. Later, he founded Nvidia, the technology firm that has grown into one of the world’s largest companies.
Thirty-three years after Nvidia’s founding, though, amid an investigation into his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, prediction market traders are weighing in on when the executive may leave the CEO post at the company he founded.
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When will Jensen Huang leave Nvidia’s CEO role?
Growing concerns about an alleged Chinese spy and her relationship with Huang intensified the week of Nov. 2, 2026, and culminated on Nov. 8, 2026, when Huang admitted to an affair.
With it, odds for Huang’s departure from the top executive post in the near term increased.
As it stands, the market-implied probability for Huang to be out as Nvidia CEO before July 1, 2027, jumped as high as 44% on Nov. 8, 2026, before falling back to roughly 30% at the time of writing.
Meanwhile, the chances of him being out by January 1, 2028, hit 44% before settling at 36%, while January 1, 2029, is trading at 40%.
The Nvidia chief sent a memo to his employees admitting to being unfaithful to his wife and issued an apology to his family and employees.
“Leading Nvidia is the privilege of my life,” Huang wrote. “My responsibility is to serve you and be worthy of your trust. I have fallen short of that responsibility,” he added, noting that the board of directors was initiating an independent investigation into concerns about national security.
Huang noted that he supports the investigation and will cooperate fully, while the Nvidia board said that there was “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.”
Will Jensen Huang need to testify before Congress?
Bipartisan scrutiny over the relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, a businesswoman who was allegedly hired to gain intelligence on the Nvidia CEO, has reportedly ramped up in the wake of new information.
On Nov. 5, 2026, CNBC reported that House committee members had asked the Nvidia executive to brief Congress on his relationship even prior to his Nov. 8 announcement.
In a new market on Kalshi, traders are asked whether or not Huang will actually need to testify before Congress, and when.
In early trading, markets imply a 46% probability that he will testify prior to January 1, 2027, and a 77% probability that he will testify before July 1, 2027.
Despite a strong market opening for American equities, shares in Nvidia (NVDA) have fallen more than 5% in early trading on Monday, Nov. 9, 2026.
The drop leads to a significant decline in Huang’s net worth. As one of the world’s richest figures, Huang maintains around 870 million shares of NVDA. While that haul was worth around $201 billion in early October 2026, it is now valued at roughly $152 billion as NVDA trades near $175.
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