Colette Kress was “a deer in the headlights,” he said, interrupting her presentation, according to a person familiar with the comments. He had summoned Kress and his senior finance team to diagnose a ballooning problem: Nvidia was in talks to provide billions of dollars of guarantees to companies that couldn’t afford its chips. That included deals led by Huang’s son-in-law, Nico Caprez, who had been offering upstart cloud providers and data-center developers financing in the hopes of turning them into long-term customers. — Source: Wall Street Journal