The chance of Huang Renxun stepping down is nearly 90%! Huida’s successor betting market revealed, former Apple CEO Cook also on the list

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's extramarital affairs have been exposed in a series. It is said that Nvidia's board of directors is preparing to hold a meeting as soon as today to decide Huang's departure. Kalshi, an American prediction market platform, was surprised to find that former Apple CEO Tim Cook is also a potential candidate.

According to comprehensive media reports, Huang Renxun has had a series of extramarital affairs. The second extramarital affair even crossed Huida's red line and had an affair with Kimberly Powell, the vice president of the medical business of his subordinate. It is rumored that Huida's board of directors is preparing to hold a meeting as soon as today to decide whether Huang Renxun will stay or not. The fate of CEO Huang Renxun and potential successors have become key betting targets in overseas prediction markets.

According to data from the decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket, bettors believe that the probability that Huang will be dismissed before the end of the year has increased by 55% in the past 24 hours, and the probability that he will announce his resignation or be replaced before the end of the year is about 88%.

The successor is also a popular betting target. Huida Vice President Ian Buck is considered a very good successor. He has the technical expertise, customer relations, experience and employee relations required to assume this position. In the US prediction market platform Kalshi, Ian leads with 42% support.

Huida Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is also regarded as one of the potential candidates for succession. She is well-known in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Except for Jen-Hsun Huang and Ian, no one knows the company better than Kress, and no one has established close connections with key stakeholders inside and outside the company like her. However, she is not from a technical background, and 27% of people predict that she will succeed.

"Times" believes that if Huida's board of directors believes that an external leader is needed to stabilize the company's development in the long term, then the candidate is undoubtedly former Apple CEO Cook. After succeeding founder Steve Jobs, he increased Apple's market value from approximately US$350 billion to US$4 trillion, controlled the Asian supply chain on which Huida's chips depended, and ultimately promoted Apple to achieve independent chip development. The latest market data from Kalshi shows that Cook also has a 10% chance of taking over.