the biggest winners if Jensen Huang is ousted are:
- Google (TPU ecosystem supremacy now possible. Jensen was the Ecosystem Guy)
- Democrats (Jensen was trump coded)
- Anthropic (they hedged against NVIDIA from day 1)
- Elon (terafab, etc.)
Jensen Huang just walked out of Nvidia with more than $130 billion of its stock, and within months he can sell every share without the public ever being told.
In March, Jensen told Jim Cramer he was hoping to die on the job.
But now he's gone.
The stock fell more than 10% before the market even opened.
Everyone is going to spend today on the affairs and the spy. I spent the morning reading the SEC's disclosure rules, because his resignation just switched off the alarm system every Nvidia shareholder relies on.
Here's how it worked until today:
As CEO and a director, Jensen had to tell the public about every Nvidia share he sold within 2 business days. That's the SEC's Form 4 rule.
So when he set up a plan last year to sell up to 6 million shares, worth about $865 million, the market saw it coming. And it saw every sale after that.
That rule covers officers, directors and anyone who owns more than 10% of a company.
Jensen is no longer an officer. He's no longer a director. And he owns 3.58% of Nvidia, about 870.6 million shares held through his family trusts, LLCs and foundation.
The next tripwire is 5%. Anyone above that line has to report their stake to the SEC, which is why BlackRock and Vanguard, which each report owning more than 7%, file and Jensen doesn't.
So there's exactly ONE filing left between Jensen and an invisible exit:
Rule 144 makes anyone the SEC considers an affiliate, meaning someone with control over the company, file a public notice when selling more than 5,000 shares or $50,000 of stock in 3 months.
His lawyers will probably treat the man who founded Nvidia as an affiliate for a while. But once he's gone 3 months without that status, the notice disappears too.
And even that rule barely slows him down.
The cap for affiliates is 1% of the company's shares every 3 months, or more when trading is heavy. Nvidia has about 24.3 billion shares outstanding, so that's about 243 million shares per quarter.
At this morning's price of about $154, that's roughly $37 billion of stock every 3 months, under the TIGHTEST version of the limit.
Even a member of Congress has to report a stock trade within 45 days. Once Rule 144 stops applying, Jensen won't have to report his at all.
Now think about who's buying:
In October, Nvidia carried more weight in the S&P 500 than the index's 256 smallest companies combined, according to Lance Roberts of Real Investment Advice. Every paycheck that goes into an S&P 500 index fund buys a piece of it automatically.
Those funds don't get a warning. They keep buying while the person who knows Nvidia better than anyone alive could be selling.
Jensen knows what Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI are really ordering. He knows the roadmap. He knows the quarter Nvidia reports on Tuesday.
Insider trading law still applies to him. He can't legally trade on anything he learned as CEO that the public doesn't know yet, and he hasn't been accused of anything like that. It's also his stock. He built that stake over 33 years, and the same rules apply to every executive who leaves.
But those rules made sense for a retired vice president with a few million dollars of stock. Applied to Jensen, they let the biggest individual owner of the most important stock in the world go dark.
The first sign that Jensen Huang is selling might be Nvidia falling for a reason nobody can see.
So should the man who built Nvidia really be allowed to sell $130 billion of it without the public ever being told?
BREAKING: $SMCI crashes 15% as the DOJ probes whether Alice Huang helped smuggle its Nvidia powered servers into China.
In March, a Super Micro co-founder was also charged in a $2.5 billion China smuggling case.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has now effectively ruled out further negotiations with Iran and directly ordered JD Vance to shift his “complete and total attention” away from Tehran, signaling the war could continue until Trump leaves office in 2029.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The order comes after Vance was recently considering direct face-to-face talks with Iran’s Mohsen Rezaei.
Meanwhile, Iran has also rejected any possibility of negotiations until the U.S. meets Tehran’s seven conditions.
WHITE HOUSE DISCUSSES OUSTING COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTNICK AMID NVIDIA SCANDAL
Senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be removed, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Lutnick faces growing criticism from lawmakers over delayed blacklisting of Chinese companies and the administration's oversight of Nvidia ($NVDA ) chip exports to China.
The scrutiny has intensified following Jensen Huang's resignation amid allegations involving a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
A White House official says President Trump maintains “complete confidence” in Lutnick.
No decision to remove him has been announced.