However, Huang is not the first to have admitted to cheating on his wife. He is just the latest in a long line of tech leaders whose private lives have sparked public scandals.

Tech Billionaires Whose Extramarital Affairs Made Global Headlines

1. Jensen Huang – Nvidia

In November 2026, Huang admitted he had been “unfaithful” to his wife of more than 40 years, Lori Huang.

Reports linked him to Alice Huang (not related), a businesswoman U.S. officials alleged was a Chinese intelligence asset, and to Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.

The combination of personal betrayal, a possible national-security angle, and a second relationship inside the company proved fatal to his position.

Huang resigned as reported by NBG Africa, as CEO after more than three decades at the helm of the company he co-founded. Nvidia’s share price took a heavy hit in the days that followed.

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2. Bill Gates – Microsoft

After 27 years of marriage to Melinda French Gates, Bill Gates got a divorce in 2021. The philanthropist later acknowledged that he had had extramarital affairs, including relationships with women he met through work and business circles.

Gates had left the CEO role in 2000 and also left the Microsoft board in 2020 amid an investigation into his conduct. The board had previously investigated at least one relationship with a company employee. 

He was neither sacked nor forced to resign over the affairs.

However, the revelations, combined with questions about his past association with Jeffrey Epstein, permanently complicated the public’s view of the Microsoft co-founder.

3. Jeff Bezos – Amazon

In early 2019, Bezos and MacKenzie Scott announced the end of their 25-year marriage.

Within hours, the National Enquirer published intimate details of Bezos’s relationship with Lauren Sánchez, including private text messages.

The scandal escalated further when Bezos accused the tabloid of blackmail over intimate photographs and suggested foreign government involvement in the leak of his private communications.

Bezos and Sánchez later married in a high-profile ceremony in 2025.

Bezos remained the CEO of Amazon until 2021, when he stepped down in a planned transition to become executive chairman. The scandal damaged his personal reputation but did not cost him the top job at the time.

The Jeff Bezos episode remains one of the most public and expensive divorce stories in tech history.

4. Sergey Brin – Google / Alphabet

In 2015, there were reports about Google co-founder Sergey Brin extramarital affairs with a Google employee involved in the Google Glass project.

At the time, he was married to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, and the affair became a major Silicon Valley talking point. 

Brin had already begun stepping back from day-to-day management. He remained a major shareholder and influential figure at Alphabet.

The  affair did not force him out of the company; however, it contributed to the end of his marriage

5. Brian Krzanich – Intel

In 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was forced to resign after the company discovered he had previously had a consensual relationship with an Intel employee.

The relationship violated Intel’s non-fraternization policy for managers; hence, the board moved quickly. 

Unlike founders with massive ownership stakes, Krzanich was a hired CEO. His resignation marked a messy end to a five-year tenure at the chip giant.

6. Eric Schmidt – Google

Former Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt has also been linked to extramarital relationships. 

In 2024, a New York Times investigation detailed a relationship with public-relations executive Marcy Simon between 2006 and 2014 while both were married to other people.

Schmidt’s personal life received less continuous media attention than some of his peers in Silicon Valley who have had extramarital affairs.  

He was neither sacked nor forced to resign over the relationship. 

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