Meet the ‘Steve Jobs of AI’, Jensen Huang: the Nvidia CEO has a US$73 billion net worth, and went from washing dishes at Denny’s to making cheesesteaks with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

- Taiwan-born Huang is known for his black leather jacket look, and his company Nvidia, a graphics chip maker, counts Tesla and Microsoft as some of its biggest clients
- The company’s Santa Clara headquarters is named Voyager after the Star Trek starship, and Huang is often seen lunching with fellow staffers; he owns a US$44 million home in San Fran’s Billionaires’ Row
In February, Nvidia became only the third company in US history to pass the US$2 trillion market value, per Forbes.

The company is known for offerings such as its accelerated computing platforms that support AI technology, per Yahoo! Finance, and it boasts the likes of Tesla and Microsoft as some of its top clients.
How did Nvidia’s Jensen Huang get rich?

Huang is the co-founder of Nvidia and currently owns around 3 per cent of the company that went public in 1999, per Forbes. Huang has been credited for Nvidia’s impressive rise. It became a leader in computer gaming chips, eventually entering the market for data centres chips and autonomous cars.
His net worth is an estimated US$72.7 billion at the time of writing, per Forbes. His bank account has skyrocketed since 2017, with his total fortune up almost thirty times since then.
Why is Jensen Huang called “the Steve Jobs of AI”?
