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

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Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after pressure from its board. He joins the undesirable club of Silicon Valley's highest-profile oustings.

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.

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