• Didntdoit71@feddit.online
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    7 hours ago

    I hope she does and then uses the money to make his remaining years miserable. Just another billionaire cunt.

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    8 hours ago

    I hate that expression, “windfall”. Like wow, finally she’ll be on stable financial ground!

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    1 day ago

    Jensen’s wife of over 40 years whom he before founding Nvidia

    Hey, at least we can be certain a human wrote this article, right?

    Now whether its good journalism or not, that’s up for debate.

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    Lmao, didn’t a guy from Enron do the same thing?

    He knew Enron was about to fail but couldn’t sell his shares on the company so faked an affair and divorce so he was forced to sell his shares to pay for the divorce and was able to cash before the shares plunged

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      Found him: Lou Pai. He had an affair with a stripper and I don’t think he was totally faking it because she got pregnant (or maybe he was really committed to the bit). But yes, he was very high up the corporate ladder and the timing of it was highly suspect.

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        They got married started a horse ranch (2 actually) and lived happily ever after until today even, kinda cute

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          Absolutely! I was just saying that faking the mistress would suggest that Pai saw Enron getting in trouble and mounted a scandal just to cash out before the crash.

          By all accounts that I’ve seen, the guy was a certified sleazebag so if he wanted an excuse to get a divorce, he didn’t even need to fake anything.

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        IIRC from the book The Smartest Guys in the Room Lou Pai was a frequent strip club visitor.

        I’m gonna butcher this, but the story was he would cover himself in cologne to hide the smell before he went home from the club. A coworker he was with asked “wouldn’t you just smell like a glittery person with booze and cologne?” And got subsequently fired for that.

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      lets put a big ding on my reputation so i got an excuse to liquify my assets, priorities i guess

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        Would you rather be a bizarrely rich brief nothing-scandal now laying on a Mexican beach, or a poor nobody on a subway?

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            His choices might have been more Never-gonna-work-again-rich disappearing to fuckoff nowhere, or rich but still working. Not much of a choice really.

            Who knows, maybe he didn’t like his wife anyway.

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      Haha, I was going to point out he’s not wearing the leather jacket in this pic.

      I don’t get his obsession with it, he’s always worn it, and for the tech industry, that’s even more quirky.

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        It’s like Zuckerburg’s old white t-shirt thing or Steve Jobs with his turtleneck.

        It’s an easy way to get PR as a tech bro, especially in the modern day where one of your main goals is appealing to young men who both buy your products and vote for the people who control how your products are purchased

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          A lot of famous people have a very simple outfit to discourage photographers.

          If you look exactly the same from one day to the next, nobody can make money off taking pictures of you.

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            I was informed awhile back that my chronic dehumanization of Zuckerberg was technically tied to antisemitic tropes awhile back so I’ve been trying to avoid doing that lol but I appreciate the fix!

            My thinking is if there’s anyone we know who loves antisemitism, it’s definitely gonna be the guy who made Facebook.