Huang Renxun has unleashed top-tier legal firepower in a fierce counterattack! The board is investigating itself, while Huang personally retains elite lawyers to fight back—this drama has now reached its most perilous moment.
Huang’s response has come faster and harder than anyone anticipated.
Facing relentless waves of scrutiny over personal conduct and security reviews, after issuing an official statement, Huang immediately deployed his ace: he retained two top litigation attorneys from the prestigious American law firm Paul, Weiss.
This is not merely a matter of sending a standard legal notice. Anyone familiar with U.S. corporate history knows that Paul, Weiss specializes in the nation’s most complex corporate litigation, regulatory battles, and white-collar criminal cases. Their clientele includes giants like Goldman Sachs and Qualcomm. Among the two lawyers Huang hired, one is Melinda Haag, a former federal prosecutor. This represents the highest level of “legal heavy artillery” available.
But what makes this situation especially delicate—and even unsettling—is the underlying detail.
Note the key information in this report: Nvidia’s board has already engaged independent legal counsel to conduct its own independent investigation into Huang Renxun. Meanwhile, Huang’s hiring of Paul, Weiss is explicitly to represent him as an individual.
What does this imply?
It indicates a deep rift has emerged at the very apex of this trillion-dollar tech empire between the founder and the board—so deep that it has entered a state of confrontation.
The board, seeking to mitigate risk, is investigating its own CEO. In turn, the CEO, facing existential threat, must spend heavily on elite legal representation to disentangle himself from the company and defend his personal position. This is no longer mere gossip—it is a textbook case of a battle for corporate control.
Does this scene sound familiar?
Recall when Steve Jobs was ousted by the Apple board he helped found; or when Elon Musk was removed from PayPal’s board. Capital and boards, under external pressure, often act with cold pragmatism and strict risk separation. When scandals and regulatory clouds loom, even the most iconic “visionary leaders” can swiftly become disposable pawns in institutional mechanisms.
This underscores the theory of “creative destruction,” articulated by Nobel laureates Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt in 2025. They argue that the immense gains generated by innovation inevitably trigger intense reallocations of power and institutional conflict. Once entrepreneurs generate extraordinary wealth, existing organizational structures, capital interests, and even political forces will seek to redefine the rules—sometimes aiming to seize control or expel the innovator altogether.
What Huang Renxun now faces is precisely such extreme pressure.
His engagement of top-tier legal counsel is not merely about clarifying a scandal. It is a clear signal to the board, to Wall Street, and to behind-the-scenes political actors: I will not only lead Nvidia technologically—I will also stand firm on power and governance.
Huang once said that Nvidia is always just 30 days away from bankruptcy. But today, the greater threat may be internal trust erosion and the undercurrents of power struggle.
This drama has now entered its most dangerous and pivotal phase. The core question is no longer about financial health—but who truly holds control over this trillion-dollar empire. Let us watch closely as this “father of AI” wields legal instruments in a life-or-death struggle for survival.
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Original source: toutiao.com/article/1881700823467076/
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