Just last month, for the second year in a row, Nvidia was No. 1 on Forbes’ list of The Most Trusted Companies In America, a ranking based on such metrics as employee, customer, investor and creditor trust. Now that Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang has resigned following reports of extramarital affairs (one with a subordinate and one with a suspected Chinese spy), longtime crisis expert Robbie Vorhaus is invoking one of Warren Buffett’s most famous aphorisms: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and five minutes to ruin it.”

