I just hope those things do just as much damage to one's legacy. But apparently not in today's world.
Just waiting for some key Infra or DevOps Engineer to get compromised by an actual AI in a honeypot tbh. Their attack surface is exponentially bigger and just as impactful.
Mind you, when these affairs happened is also literally when he took the company to 5T market cap
Anyway, Nvidia is screwed.
Further, nvidia has a policy which he agreed to regarding relationships with other employees, which he appears to have violated.
Each comoany will have their own policies.
I mean IFF you having a "proper" image matters then it is, I don't think this is the case here.
The problem here is him failing to keep work and affairs separate, one of them seeming to have a high chance to be a Chinese spy AND most relevantly a long ongoing problem with export restricted products of your company ending up in China in multiple different ways which look like insider knowledge was involved and to make that worse some of the past situations did look a lot like Nvidia actively helping/taking advantage of the black market. This wasn't well covered by dominant US media, but enough people with influence have noticed it anyway.
so no this hasn't much to do with racism, but long standing issues being funneled through an outrage due to "improper behavior" while already many stock holders where expecting an incoming stock downturn for one or another reason.
putting that aside, if Musk wouldn't own the companies he leads with dominant shares he would have long been ousted. Actually various stock holders have multiple times tried to oust him due to him acting in his best interest instead of that of the company AFIK