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“Every time he talked about these things, now you have to say, was that his honest opinion, his opinion as the CEO of NVIDIA, his opinion as an American, or was he compromised?”

This Week in Startups · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“Every time he talked about these things, now you have to say, was that his honest opinion, his opinion as the CEO of NVIDIA, his opinion as an American, or was he compromised?” — Jason Calacanis, This Week in Startups

Context

Calacanis explains why the Huang scandal matters beyond the affair itself. Huang has spoken often on China, chip exports and partnerships, and every past statement now has to be re-read for possible compromise.

Transcript

This Week in Startups Around 11:12 into the episode
Jason Calacanis

So, here we go. He's standing here next to Jensen Huang, smiling, glass of wine. Then, the second picture, he's there on a couch having drinks. Third picture, you know, it's clearly close

Lon Harris

relationship. They are, they know each other and spend. Not my

Jason Calacanis

…first, you can take this stuff down now. The first is: anytime Jensen is going to talk about, anytime Jensen is going to talk about imports, exports, partnerships in China, the relationship with China, which I asked him at the all-in-summit, like, hey, do we need to be at war with China? I don't know if you remember that moment. Yeah. And he was like, no, no, we can all win together, yada, yada. Every time he talked about these things, now you have to say, was that his honest opinion, his opinion as the CEO of NVIDIA, his opinion as an American, or was he compromised? And they were saying to him, Hey, you know, there could be compromise involved here. Who knows? But they were holding it over his head and saying, hey, we need you to come out with this line of thinking. Now, I'm asking a question, you know, as a commentator to him. Other people are asking comments about China. And now we all have to think, whoa, in the back of our heads, boom. So now the number…

Lon Harris

be over there trying to seduce their AI executives. We probably

Jason Calacanis

are. I'll be honest.

Lon Harris

We probably are.

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