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Jensen Huang
CEO & President, NVIDIA
$197.7B
$997M (0.51%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 9/30/26
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Last Updated Sep 15, 2026, 6:30am EDT
- Jensen Huang cofounded graphics-chip maker Nvidia in 1993 and has served as its CEO and president ever since.
- Huang owns approximately 4% of Nvidia, which he took public in 1999.
- Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to Thailand as a child, but his family sent him and his brother to the U.S as civil unrest mounted in the Asian nation.
- Under Huang, Nvidia's GPUs became dominant first in computer gaming and now in AI, propelling the company's market cap past $5 trillion in 2025.
- He's given Stanford $30 million for an engineering center and, in 2022, gave $50 million to Oregon State University for a namesake research center.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 63
- Source of Wealth
- Nvidia, Self Made
- Residence
- Los Altos, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Education
- Master of Science in Engineering, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Oregon State University
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