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Jensen Huang

The native form of this personal name is Huang Jen-Hsun. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Jensen Huang
黃仁勳
Huang in 2025
Born
Jen-Hsun Huang

(1963-02-17) February 17, 1963 (age 63)
Taipei, Taiwan
Citizenship
  • Taiwan
  • United States
Education
Known forCo-founding Nvidia
TitlePresident and CEO of Nvidia Corporation (1993–present)
Spouse
Lori Huang
​
(m. 1985)​
Children2
RelativesLisa Su (cousin)
Awards
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese黃仁勳
Simplified Chinese黄仁勋
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng Rénxūn
Bopomofoㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄒㄩㄣˉ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhHwang Ren-shiun
Wade–GilesHuang2 Jên2-hsün1
Tongyong PinyinHuáng Rén-syūn
Yale RomanizationHwáng Rén-syūn
MPS2Huáng Rén-shiūn
IPA[xwǎŋ ɻə̌n.ɕýn]
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWong4 Jan4-fan1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJN̂g Jîn-hun
Tâi-lôN̂g Jîn-hun
Signature

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang[a] (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 October 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world and the wealthiest individual of Asian descent.

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

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Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 17, 1963,[1] and moved to the southern city of Tainan as a child.[2] He is the second son of Huang Hsing-tai, a chemical engineer at an oil refinery, and Lo Tsai-hsiu, a schoolteacher.[3] They were a middle-class Taiwanese family that relocated often,[4] and were native speakers of Taiwanese Hokkien.[5] Each day, Jensen's mother randomly selected 10 words from the dictionary to teach her sons English.[6] When he was five years old, Huang's family moved to Thailand to support his father's refinery career and remained there for approximately four years.[2][7] He attended Ruamrudee International School while in Bangkok.[8]

In the late 1960s, Hsing-tai traveled from Taiwan to New York City to train under an air conditioning company and, after returning home, resolved to send his sons to the United States.[9] At age nine, Jensen, despite not yet being able to speak English fluently, was sent by his parents to live in the United States.[10] He and his older brother moved in 1973 to live with an uncle in Tacoma, Washington, escaping widespread social unrest in Thailand.[11] Both Huang's aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state; they accidentally enrolled him and his brother in the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth,[11] mistakenly believing it to be a prestigious boarding school.[12] In order to afford the academy's tuition, Jensen's parents sold nearly all their possessions.[13]

When he was 10 years old, Huang lived with his older brother in the Oneida boys' dormitory.[12] Each student was expected to work every day, and his brother was assigned to perform manual labor on a nearby tobacco farm.[13] Because he was too young to attend classes at the reform academy, Huang was educated at a separate public school—the Oneida Elementary school in Oneida, Kentucky—arriving as "an undersized Asian immigrant with long hair and heavily accented English"[12] and was frequently bullied and beaten.[14] In Oneida, Huang cleaned toilets every day, learned to play table-tennis,[b] joined the swimming team,[16] and appeared in Sports Illustrated at age 14.[17] He taught his illiterate roommate, a "17-year-old covered in tattoos and knife scars,"[17] how to read in exchange for being taught how to bench press.[12] In 2002, Huang said he remembered his life in Kentucky "more vividly than just about any other".[17]

Two years after Huang arrived in Oneida, his parents moved to the United States and settled in Beaverton, Oregon, after which the brothers withdrew from school in Kentucky to live back with them.[18] As a teenager, Huang attended Aloha High School in Aloha, Oregon,[19] where he excelled academically. He skipped two grades, graduated at age 16, and became a nationally ranked table-tennis player in addition to being a member of its mathematics, computer, and science clubs.[12] In 1977, the school purchased an Apple II computer which Huang used to play Super Star Trek, a text-based game, and to program in BASIC, creating his own version of Snake.[20]

Beginning at age 15,[21] Huang got his first job working the graveyard shift[22] at a local Denny's restaurant as a dishwasher, busboy, and waiter from 1978 to 1983.[23][24] After high school, he chose to enroll at Oregon State University due to its low in-state tuition.[25] He studied electrical engineering and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree with highest honors.[26][27] Huang later recalled, "I was the youngest kid in school, in class" and the only student who "looked like a child".[28] Years later, while working as a microchip designer in Silicon Valley, he concurrently pursued graduate night classes at Stanford University, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1992.[12][29]

AMD and LSI Logic

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Sun GX version 1 board showing its two large LSI Logic chips.
Sun GX version 1. Note the two large LSI Logic chips implementing the accelerator.

After graduating from college, Huang was a microchip designer in Silicon Valley.[12] He was recruited for positions at Texas Instruments, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and LSI Logic,[30] ultimately choosing the California-based AMD due to already being familiar with the company. Huang designed AMD microprocessors while simultaneously attending Stanford and raising his two children. However, when he heard of new chip design processes at LSI Logic, Huang left AMD to assume a role as a technical officer at the LSI Corporation, working under a startup company, Sun Microsystems, where he met engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.[31]

LSI was in contract with Sun Microsystems and had introduced Huang to Malachowsky and Priem, who were working on a new graphics accelerator card. While the three produced the card's manufacturing process, the relationship between Malachowsky and Priem became strained as the two disputed the chip's design, leading to infighting; according to Malachowsky, they "broke every tool that LSI Logic had in their standard portfolio".[32] In 1989, Huang, Malachowsky, and Priem finalized the accelerator, which they called the "GX graphics engine".[33] GX was a widespread financial success; the sales of the graphics engine contributed to Sun Microsystem's revenue increasing from $262 million in 1987 to $656 million in 1990, and Huang was promoted to be the director of LSI's CoreWare, a division that manufactured chips for hardware vendors.[34]

Nvidia

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Founding (1993)

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Huang co-founded Nvidia Corporation after meeting with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in a Denny's diner in East San Jose (pictured). As a teenager, Huang was an employee at a Denny's restaurant in Oregon.

When business began to slow for Sun Microsystems after 1990, Huang, along with Priem and Malachowsky, each resigned their jobs to pursue a venture together in making graphics chips for PC games.[35] They initially named their new company "NVision" until Huang suggested that the company be named "Nvidia" based on the Latin word invidia, as Priem wanted competitors to turn "green with envy".[12] They eventually dropped the "i" to honor the NV1 chip that they were then developing.[36] The three met frequently in 1992 at a Denny's roadside diner in East San Jose to formulate a business plan.[37] Huang chose for them to meet at Denny's due to his prior work experience at the restaurant chain and because it was "quieter than home and had cheap coffee".[12] The three founded the company during one meeting at a breakfast booth at the diner.[38][39]

To formally incorporate the company, Huang found a lawyer, James Gaither of Cooley Godward, who demanded the $200 in cash in Huang's pockets to capitalize the company.[36] After that meeting, Huang went back to Priem and Malachowsky to ask each of them for $200 for their respective shares of the company, which meant that Nvidia's initial capital was $600.[40] On April 5, 1993, Huang personally signed Nvidia's original articles of incorporation into effect.[41]

Although he left LSI, Huang remained in good standing with the company and was able to secure funding for Nvidia from LSI's CEO, Wilfred Corrigan, who introduced Huang to venture capitalist Don Valentine. An account cited how Huang's presentation pitch went badly.[42] Valentine, the leader of Sequoia Capital, chose to invest in Nvidia through Corrigan's support,[42] as did Sutter Hill Ventures. The funding enabled Nvidia to begin development efforts toward its first chip and to begin paying wages for its employees.[43] By the first day of operation, Huang was made Nvidia's president and CEO.[44] Even though Huang, at age 30, was younger than Priem and Malachowsky, both Priem and Malachowsky believed that he was prepared to be CEO.[12] According to Priem, "we basically deferred to Jensen on day one" and told Huang, "you're in charge of running the company—all the stuff Chris and I don't know how to do".[45][c]

President and CEO (1993–present)

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Huang at Computex Taipei in 2016

As of 2024, Huang has been Nvidia's chief executive for over three decades, a tenure described by The Wall Street Journal as "almost unheard of in fast-moving Silicon Valley".[46] He owns 3.6% of Nvidia's stock, which went public in 1999.[47] He earned US$24.6 million as CEO in 2007, ranking him as the 61st highest paid U.S. CEO by Forbes.[47] According to Huang, the three co-founders in 1993 had "no idea how" to start a company,[39] "building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder" than they expected, and they probably would not have done it if they had realized up front "the pain and suffering [involved] ... the challenges [they were] going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that [would] go wrong."[48] For its first graphics accelerator chips, Nvidia focused on rendering quadrilateral primitives (forward texture mapping) instead of the triangle primitives preferred by its competitors,[12] and barely survived long enough to successfully pivot to triangles only because Sega agreed to keep Nvidia alive with a $5 million investment.[49] By the time the RIVA 128 was released in August 1997 and saved the company, Nvidia was down to one month of payroll.[12] This resulted in the "unofficial company motto": "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."[12] Huang regularly began presentations to Nvidia staff with those words for many years.[12] However, Huang regards the "pain and suffering" of Nvidia's early years as essential to the company's success in later years, because it forced him to become a better leader.[50]

Huang at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in 2018

Huang does not keep a fixed office; he roams Nvidia's headquarters and settles temporarily in conference rooms as needed.[51] He prefers to maintain a relatively flat management structure, with around 60 direct reports as of November 2024,[52] based upon his view that people reporting directly to him "should be at the top of their game" and "require the least amount of pampering".[53] He does not wear a watch, because as he likes to say, "now is the most important time".[46]

Historically, Huang and Nvidia were well-known only among the gamers and computer graphics experts who were the original intended markets for Nvidia's graphics processing unit (GPU) products. In 2017, a Fortune profile article acknowledged: "If you haven't heard of Nvidia, you can be forgiven."[51] During the AI boom, Huang's net worth rose rapidly along with the value of Nvidia's stock, from US$3 billion in 2019 to US$90 billion in May 2024.[54] During the same timeframe, Huang became more widely known. In March 2024, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Instagram with a picture of himself and Huang wearing each other's signature jacket: "He's like Taylor Swift, but for tech".[55]

Huang speaking with Josep Borrell in 2024

In June 2024, Nvidia's market capitalization reached US$3 trillion for the first time and Huang's net worth grew to US$100 billion.[56] By then, the news media was using the term "Jensanity" to refer to Huang's celebrity status in Taiwan,[56] and it was compared to the "Linsanity" phenomenon of 2012.[7] Huang was the center of attention at Computex 2024 in Taipei, even though he was not on the official speaking program.[56] Large crowds of fans and paparazzi followed Huang and his family members around every time they appeared in public during their 2024 visit to Taiwan.[56][7]

In January 2025, Huang delivered the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.[57] During this keynote, Huang made a number of announcements such as a new gaming GPU series called the GeForce RTX 50 series for both PCs and laptops.[57] In October 2025, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company in the world to reach a market capitalization exceeding $5 trillion.[58]

In 2026, Huang was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) by President Donald Trump.[59]

Awards

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Personal life

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As of October 2026, Forbes estimates Huang's net worth to be over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.[91]

While at Oregon State University, Huang met his future wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner at the time.[12] They have two children, Spencer and Madison.[51] Spencer launched a bar in Taipei in 2015[92] that was honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia by Forbes.[93] The bar closed in April 2021,[94] and he is currently a product manager at Nvidia. Madison previously worked in the hotel industry and is currently director of product marketing at Nvidia.[95] The Huang family lived in ordinary middle-class starter homes in San Jose before Nvidia went public in 1999.[96] In 2003, they moved to a larger house in Los Altos Hills, California, and they acquired a second home in Wailea, Hawaii, the following year.[96] In 2017, a limited liability company reportedly linked to the Huangs acquired a mansion in San Francisco for $38 million.[96]

Huang and AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su are relatives.[97] His mother is the youngest sister of Su's maternal grandfather, making them first cousins, once removed.[98][99] Huang was unaware of their familial connection until Su became AMD's CEO.[100]

A December 2024 investigation by The New York Times reported that Huang had set up an intentionally defective grantor trust and a grantor retained annuity trust. It was estimated that these trusts and his foundation would reduce his family's estate tax by $8 billion.[101]

Huang has dual Taiwanese and American citizenship.[102] During his time at AMD in 1984, Huang, who grew up speaking Taiwanese Hokkien,[103] began learning Mandarin Chinese in order to communicate with Chinese photomask workers employed at the company. He has said that he learned the language phonetically through regular conversations with his co-workers.[20] He makes frequent visits back to Taiwan.[104]

Huang and Taiwanese billionaire Charles Liang, co-founder of Supermicro, are longtime friends. Both companies were established in 1993 and have collaborated on products, with the latter utilizing Nvidia AI chips in its servers.[105] Huang is also a close friend of TSMC founder Morris Chang.[106]

Huang got a tattoo of an abstract version of the Nvidia logo when the company's stock price hit US$100,[107] which he first publicly showed at the 2010 GPU Technology Conference.[108] The Times of India described the tattoo, along with the black leather jacket he is frequently wearing, as "his signature style".[109]

Philanthropy

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Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, established the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation in 2007 and donated $330 million of Nvidia shares.[101] The foundation's assets, primarily Nvidia shares, have significantly appreciated, reaching a value exceeding $12 billion as of late 2025, placing it among the largest private foundations in the United States.[110][111] Approximately two-thirds of its grants are allocated to donor-advised funds, including the GeForce Fund at Schwab Charitable.[112][113] In June 2025, the Huangs contributed an additional $60 million in Nvidia stock to the foundation.[114]

On October 14, 2022, Jensen and Lori Huang donated $50 million toward a new $213 million research and education center at Oregon State University. The center will house one of the nation's most powerful supercomputers, built around Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD and OVX SuperPOD systems, giving faculty the computing power to tackle complex research problems. Waste heat from the system's cooling will be repurposed to heat more than 500,000 square feet of building space on OSU's Corvallis Campus.[promotion?][115][116][117]

In early 2025, the foundation matched a $22.5 million fundraising effort by the California College of the Arts, contributing an equivalent amount to complete a $45 million campaign to address the institution's financial deficits and enrollment challenges, marking one of the largest individual gifts in the college's history.[118][119][120] The foundation has also provided grants ranging from five to six figures to organizations including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, the Tides Center, the B612 Foundation, AI4ALL (promoting diversity in artificial intelligence), and Mental Health Innovations (developing technology-based mental health solutions).[113] In accordance with Internal Revenue Service regulations for private foundations, the foundation disbursed $123 million in 2024 and was projected to distribute $369 million in 2025.[121]

In 2026, Huang donated $10 million to relief efforts for the 2026 Nepal–Tibet floods.[122]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Wade–Giles: Huang2 Jên2-hsün1; Tâi-lô: N̂g Jîn-hun
  2. ^ According to Forbes, Huang "placed third in junior doubles at the U.S. Table Tennis Open championship, at age 15" in 1978.[15]
  3. ^ In a 2011 interview at Stanford University, Huang recalled that Priem said, "Jensen, you're the CEO, right? Done".[45]

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