Jensen Huang
American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. As of September 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$190 billion, making him the eighth-wealthiest individual in the world.
The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Huang spent his childhood in Taiwan and Thailand before moving to the United States, where he was a student in Kentucky and Oregon. After earning a master's degree from Stanford University, Huang launched Nvidia in 1993 from a Denny's restaurant in San Jose, California, at age 30 and has remained its president and CEO since. He led the company out of near-bankruptcy during the 1990s and oversaw its expansion from GPU development into high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
Under Huang, Nvidia experienced rapid growth during the AI boom, becoming the first company to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion in October 2025. In 2021 and 2024, Time magazine included Huang in their list of the most influential people. In 2025, he was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year.
Early life and education
Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 17, 1963, and moved to the southern city of Tainan as a child. He is the younger of two sons of Huang Hsing-tai, a chemical engineer at an oil refinery, and Lo Tsai-hsiu, a schoolteacher.
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