TVN: What is the biggest challenge in covering a fast-developing story like this?

Quintanilla: Probably keeping an open mind about what’s still to come. There’s a huge contingent that still wants to give Nvidia every benefit of the doubt, and I get it. The company — and Jensen Huang — were revered. They made investors rich and have created some monumental technology. But as we get reminded every so often, business executives are fallible. Governments and politicians are fallible. We need to be prepared for all kinds of outcomes as the layers of this onion get peeled back.

TVN: What is the most riveting part of this story for you?

Quintanilla: Aw, man. I suppose we’re all just trying to get into Jensen Huang’s head at the moment. How does a guy squander his level of global influence, wealth, and stardom? And for what? For the affair? Was it recklessness? A false sense of invincibility? Or were there other motivations we don’t know about yet? Wall Street analysts have been calling him “Icarus,” which seems appropriate. I just don’t think we’ve ever seen an Icarus fall from this high an altitude.