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Jensen Huang: Dishwasher who became rock star of tech but
couldn't resist a pretty face
Story by Tom Leonard From New York For The Daily Mail
10 Nov
With his penchant for designer black leather jackets and
status as one of the richest people in the world, Jensen Huang is used to being
treated like a rock star in his native Taiwan.
There's even a word for it: 'Jensanity.'
So when a nubile young fan asked the boss of chip giant
Nvidia to write his autograph across her chest at a technology trade fair on
the island two years ago, he was happy to oblige, even as – pen poised to
scrawl his name across her bustier as the cameras clicked – he wondered aloud
if it was a 'good idea'.
Many may now be asking whether the same thought occurred to
him before he started an extramarital affair with a glamorous young tech
business executive who the US government now says is a Chinese spy.
The revelation sent Nvidia's shares into freefall. But the
scandal represents a rare misstep by a man who dreamed up the business that
would turn him into 'the Taylor Swift of tech' in a US roadside diner where he had
once worked as a waiter.
Born Jen-Hsun in the Taiwanese city of Taiwan in 1963, Mr
Huang was five when his father, a chemical engineer at an American air
conditioner manufacturer, decided to move the family first to Thailand
and then the US after visiting the country for job training.
Despite not speaking English, his wife taught their two boys
ten new words she selected every day from a dictionary in preparation for the
move.
Mr Huang was nine when he and his brother finally moved to
the US in 1973 and lived with an uncle and aunt in Washington state as they
waited for their parents to join them.
But Jensen and his brother ended up at a very tough Baptist
reform school for 'problematic' children in Oneida, Kentucky, after their
uncle, a recent immigrant himself, signed them up for what he thought was a
thoroughly respectable boarding school.
Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, who owns 3.6 per cent of the
company, with 'Chinese spy' Alice Huang
Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Technology and
Innovation to Jensen Huang in Washington, DC
Jensen and Lori Huang married in 1985 and have two children,
Spencer and Madison, who both now work at Nvidia
Daily Mail
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As their parents had sold nearly all their possessions to
pay the school fees, however, they had no choice but to tough it out.
Young Huang was not only assigned to clean the lavatories
but was mercilessly bullied. 'The kids were really tough,' he recalled. 'They
all had pocket knives – and when they get in fights, it's not pretty.'
Despite the relentless persecution, he developed a passion
for computer games and table tennis, excelling at both and even becoming a
national ping-pong star in his teens.
'I loved that sport, but I never loved it more than
academics,' he once said and he went on to study electrical engineering at
Oregon State University.
It was there Mr Huang met the woman who would become his
wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner in class. He says his
'killer' pick-up line was offering to show her his homework.
The couple married in 1985 and have two children, Spencer
and Madison, who both now work at Nvidia.
After earning a Master's degree from tech hub Stanford
University, Mr Huang had his light bulb moment while celebrating his 30th
birthday with two friends. It was at a branch of the diner chain Denny's
outside San Jose, California – where Mr Huang had worked as a dishwasher and
waiter to help pay his way through university – that the trio came up with the
idea of starting a tech company.
Founded in 1993, Nvidia – which Mr Huang says took its name
from the Latin word for 'envy' – initially devoted itself to producing high-end
computer-graphics hardware for video games.
When it went public in 1999, it was valued at $562million, a
fraction of its current market capitalisation of $4.3trillion (£3.2trillion).
It wasn't until around 2016 that Nvidia's founders made the momentous decision to concentrate their efforts on becoming the world's foremost manufacturer of programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), the powerful computer chips that are essential to train and run AI systems.
Mr Huang – who owns 3.6 per cent of Nvidia – is now
estimated to be worth at least $150billion (£112billion), which puts him eighth
in the financial magazine Forbes' list of the world's richest people.
He owns a modernist mansion in San Francisco for which he
paid $38million (£28million) in 2017, a 7,000 sq ft house near Nvidia's
headquarters in Silicon Valley and a sprawling holiday home on the Hawaiian
island of Maui.
When Time magazine named the 'Architects of AI' as its
'person' of the year in 2025, Mr Huang was one of the group of people it
honoured.
But following this week's revelations about Mr Huang's
private life, 'Jensanity' has taken on a rather different meaning.
The man who likes to boast that his company has ushered in
'the next industrial revolution' has been humbled by a very old-fashioned
deception.
