जेन्सन हुआंग Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang was born in Taiwan in 1963 and moved to the United States at nine. He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State and Stanford. He designed chips at AMD and LSI Logic. In 1993 he co-founded Nvidia with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and became its chief executive. Nvidia’s GPUs and its CUDA software now power most of the world’s AI training.
Curated by Nikhil Sharma: a boy sent from Taiwan to a Kentucky reform school who washed dishes at Denny’s. He co-founded Nvidia at 30 and has run it for 33 years. His graphics chips became the engine of the AI boom and made Nvidia the first company worth $5 trillion. In Mumbai he told India to make its own AI.
- $5tn First to the mark: Nvidia passed $5 trillion in market value on 29 October 2025
- 1993 Nvidia founded: With $600 of capital put in by three co-founders
- 33 Years as CEO: He has led Nvidia since its first day
- 60 Direct reports: He holds no one-on-one meetings with them
The facts
- Born
- Jen-Hsun Huang on 17 February 1963 in Taiwan. He spent part of his early childhood in Tainan and in Thailand (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Education
- BS in electrical engineering from Oregon State University (1984). MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University (1992) (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Now
- Co-founder, president and chief executive of Nvidia since April 1993 (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Citizenship
- Holds dual Taiwanese and US citizenship. Visits Taiwan often (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Stake
- Owns about 3.6% of Nvidia. Forbes put his net worth above $200 billion in 2026 (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Honours
- National Academy of Engineering (2024). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025). IEEE Medal of Honor (2026). FT Person of the Year (2025) (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Family
- Married to Lori Huang since 1985. They met as lab partners at Oregon State. Their children Spencer and Madison both work at Nvidia (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
- Relation
- A first cousin once removed of AMD chief executive Lisa Su. He learnt of the link only after she took the job (Wikipedia: Jensen Huang)
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