Jensen Huang
Co-founder & CEO, NVIDIA
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Executive Summary
Born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1963. Immigrated to the US as a child, sent to a reform school in Kentucky by mistake at age 9. Worked as a dishwasher at Denny's. EE from Oregon State, Master's from Stanford. Founded NVIDIA in 1993 at a Denny's with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. Has been CEO for 33 consecutive years, one of the longest-tenured CEOs in tech history.
Under his leadership, NVIDIA grew from a $300M IPO to the world's first $5 trillion company (October 2025). The key inflection: his 2006 bet on CUDA, a billion-dollar investment in general-purpose GPU computing that nearly destroyed NVIDIA's stock but created the software ecosystem that now powers the entire AI revolution.
His thinking matters because Huang sits at the base layer of the entire AI stack. Every major AI lab builds on NVIDIA hardware. He combines deep technical conviction, multi-decade patience, and the showmanship of a platform CEO who fills arenas for chip keynotes. He has bet the company at least three times and been right every time.
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