(Nov 13): Billionaire investor and Nvidia Corp shareholder Leo KoGuan expressed support for Jensen Huang on Friday and said he won’t increase his stake in the tech company with someone else at the helm.

“No further investment without Jensen,” KoGuan said in a text message, saying he’s invested around US$1.3 billion (RM5.3 billion) in Nvidia.

In a series of posts on X, KoGuan called Huang “the supreme creator” and acknowledged that while the executive had made errors, “we must prioritise rewards” rather “than punishments”.

The posts followed Huang’s abrupt ouster from Nvidia after reports of three affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China. That ended his decades-long reign over a company at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) buildout and, by extension, the global economy.

Singapore-based KoGuan, who has a US$13.2 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, began investing in Nvidia in March. It was a notable move for an investor whose net worth for years had been tied up largely in one stock: Tesla Inc. The size of KoGuan’s Nvidia stake couldn’t be independently verified.

Earlier this week, KoGuan said on X that he’s also an investor in Space Exploration Technologies Corp and Google, whose parent is Alphabet Inc. He told Bloomberg that he plans on increasing his positions in those companies.

Investors must buy and hold super-intelligence companies for the long term, he wrote on X.

“I hope and plan to invest in Jensen Huang if he creates or buys” another super-intelligence company, he wrote on Friday. “I hope he will offer me the opportunity to invest in his future company.”

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