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Jensen Huang is one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the technology industry and the man behind the growth of NVIDIA, the company that became a protagonist of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.
He is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the company, which he has led as president and CEO since 1993. But before he was the tycoon he is today and one of the richest men in the world, according to Forbes' real-time billionaire list, he was a dishwasher. This is his story.
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Jensen Huang was born on February 17, 1963, in Tainan, Taiwan. His childhood was marked by migration: when he was nine years old, his parents sent him and his brother to the United States to live with an uncle in Washington.
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This experience of adapting to another country was one of the first major challenges of his life and marked the beginning of a trajectory that would take him to Silicon Valley, the cradle of all the technology companies that dominate the world today.
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His academic training was focused on electrical engineering. He studied at Oregon State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and later completed a master's degree at Stanford University, which he finished in 1992.
Between his academic preparation and his launch into the tech world, Huang got his first job at a Denny’s restaurant in Portland as a waiter and dishwasher: “I was a dishwasher, a busboy, a waiter. No one can carry more coffee cups than I can,” reads his biography on the NVIDIA blog.
Years later, before starting his own business, he worked at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and LSI Logic, companies specializing in semiconductors. That experience allowed him to learn about the electronics components industry firsthand and acquire the technical and business knowledge he would later use to create NVIDIA.
In 1993, at the age of 30, he founded NVIDIA along with his partners and close friends Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. In fact, their first business meetings were at a Denny’s restaurant, with “all the coffee you could drink without them kicking you out” on the table.
The technology company began with the goal of developing more advanced graphics technology for computers and video games. One of its turning points came in 1999, when it introduced the GeForce 256, which Nvidia identified as the world's first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). From then on, the company expanded its developments into accelerated computing and technologies capable of processing large amounts of information in parallel.
With the advancement of artificial intelligence, Jensen Huang drove a transformation that took NVIDIA far beyond video games. Its GPUs became essential tools for training AI models, developing generative applications, and operating data centers and supercomputers.
The growth of this industry cemented Huang as one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley. In 2026, he was also appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the United States, a recognition of his influence on technological development.
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How much money does Jensen Huang have?
After creating one of the world's most powerful technology companies, Jensen Huang simultaneously became one of the richest men, according to financial estimates by specialized media outlets like Forbes.
According to their real-time billionaire list, the CEO and president of NVIDIA has a fortune of 154.2 billion dollars. He is the third wealthiest immigrant in the United States.
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Huang is the tenth richest man in the world with the aforementioned fortune, just behind other well-known tycoons within the technology industry.
Elon Musk is much wealthier than him with an estimated fortune of 891 billion dollars. These are the men richer than Jensen Huang, according to Forbes.
- Elon Musk (Tesla): 891 mil millones de dólares
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon): 386.4 mil millones de dólares
- Larry Page (Google): 241 mil millones de dólares
- Sergey Brin (Google): 221.8 mil millones de dólares
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook): 220.2 mil millones de dólares
- Michael Dell (Dell Technologies): 205.6 mil millones de dólares
- Steve Ballmer (Microsoft): 167.1 mil millones de dólares
- Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway): 161.8 mil millones de dólares
- Larry Ellison (Oracle): 159.2 mil millones de dólares
- Jensen Huang (Nvidia): 154.7 mil millones de dólares
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Jensen Huang faces scandal over affair with alleged Chinese spy
In recent hours, the entrepreneur has been the target of criticism and accusations for having an alleged affair with businesswoman Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, linked to the Singapore-based company Megaspeed.
According to reports recently published by the New York Times, Huang has been linked to the alleged spy, who was reportedly passing information to China about the progress of artificial intelligence in the United States, for a little over a year, and President Donald Trump was aware of it.
In addition to the scandal over information possibly leaked to the Chinese government through his affair, it is known that Jensen Huang is married to his colleague Lori Huang, whom he met at Oregon State University more than 40 years ago and with whom he shares his two heirs, Madison and Spencer, currently employees of NVIDIA.
According to available reports, Lori has her own fortune. In NVIDIA alone, she has 69 million dollars in shares. A declaration to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) indicates that she has a net worth of 9.1 billion dollars.
After the infidelity scandal, Huang admitted to being involved with Alice Huang.
In a statement sent to company employees, Jensen apologized for cheating on his wife with the alleged spy: “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her, and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am very sorry. Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, I let them down and damaged the life we built together,” the billionaire stated.
He added: “I take full responsibility for my actions and the harm caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it. To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I did. I hope our family recovers and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.”
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