Jensen Huang

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
by Matthew Ball
Published 18 Jul 2022

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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt
Published 8 Apr 2025

Geoffrey Hinton was simultaneously awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. That same year, Jensen Huang was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, an honor many felt was overdue. And all of this—all of this money, all of this talent, all of this innovation—would pass through a single corporate siphon. All of it would go through Nvidia. * * * • • • In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Mike Campbell, a drunk and penniless war veteran, is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he responds. “Gradually and then suddenly.” The same phrase might be used to describe how Jensen Huang got rich. Small changes that had accumulated over two decades of investment were now paying extraordinary dividends.

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It is the story of a revolution in silicon and the small group of renegade engineers who defied Wall Street to make it happen. And it is the story of the birth of an awesome and terrifying new category of artificial intelligence, whose long-term implications for the human species cannot be known. At the center of this story is a propulsive, mercurial, brilliant, and extraordinarily dedicated man. His name is Jensen Huang, and his thirty-two-year tenure is the longest of any technology CEO in the S&P 500. Huang is a visionary inventor whose familiarity with the inner workings of electronic circuitry approaches a kind of intimacy. He reasons from first principles about what microchips can do today, then gambles with great conviction on what they will do tomorrow.

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I was surprised to learn how much of the man he later became was present in the immigrant child arriving unaccompanied by his parents in the United States in 1973 to an environment so unconducive to flourishing that it seems a miracle he survived it. To understand Huang fully, we begin not at Denny’s restaurant, nor in the giant cathedrals of technology he later commissioned, but at this tiny rural school. Part I One The Bridge Sometime toward the end of 1973, ten-year-old Jensen Huang rose from bed in his dormitory and set off on the perilous journey to school. Huang, born in Taiwan and raised in Thailand, had recently arrived in rural Kentucky. His path led down a sloping hillside to a floodplain situated among forested hills, and across a rickety pedestrian footbridge, which was suspended by ropes and missing many planks, through which could be seen the frigid and rushing waters of the river below.

The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life
by Nick Maggiulli
Published 22 Jul 2025

When people ask him what he can do to encourage entrepreneurs to start companies, he replies, “If you need encouragement, don’t start a company.”[12] You might think this is just a joke, but it’s not. I’ve heard far too many ultrasuccessful people say something similar about running businesses. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, was asked what company he would start if he was thirty years old again, and this was his response: I wouldn’t do it…. The reason why I wouldn’t do it, and it goes back to why it’s so hard, is building a company and building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder than I expected it to be….

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BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 10 Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911; Project Gutenberg, 2012), 46, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41568/41568-pdf.pdf. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 11 “Elon Musk, ‘Starting a Company Is Like EATING GLASS…,’ ” YouTube video, July 31, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r4JXqovL54. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 12 “NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang,” Acquired (podcast), YouTube video, October 15, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6NfxiemvHg. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 13 Benjamin F. Jones and Daniel Kim, “Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think,” Clifford-Lewis Private Wealth, February 11, 2023, https://www.clifford-lewis.com/blog/most-successful-entrepreneurs-are-older-than-you-think.

Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley
by Atsuo Inoue
Published 18 Nov 2021

Even if I had managed to buy out both Sprint and T-Mobile I still wouldn’t have been interested in being the number one mobile company in America, but that’s the path I pursued regardless. If I hadn’t bought Sprint then I would have gone for Arm – I’m certain I could have got them for a lot less at that point in time.’ Roughly three months after announcing SoftBank’s acquisition of Arm, on 20 October Son invited Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia, to his California home for a private meal between just the two of them. Son explains his mindset at the time. ‘Speaking frankly, me considering whether to purchase Arm, Nvidia or pursue a business alliance of some sort with them all happened at around the same time.

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Like Son says, there is no doubt that Steve Jobs was a bona fide genius, creating the platform during his second coming for each mobile service provider to accelerate and expand their own products’ growth. The fourth chapter, which has only just begun, will be AI. ‘Within the realm of AI I believe Nvidia’s Jensen Huang holds the key to the hardware aspects,’ Son says. Huang in turn commented on the possibilities of AI in his video interview with Son at SoftBank World. ‘Arm is truly one of the world’s rarest, most valuable treasures – a treasure for all humankind – and I am truly grateful they have entrusted me with their business.

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz
Published 15 Mar 2021

LeCun told Musk he should contact Urs Muller, an old colleague from Bell Labs who’d built a start-up for exploring autonomous vehicles through deep learning. Before Musk could hire this Swiss researcher, however, someone else did. Days after LeCun got the call from Musk, he fielded an identical request from Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, and he gave the same answer, which Nvidia acted on without delay. The company’s ambition was to build a lab that would push the boundaries of self-driving and, in the process, help the company sell more GPU chips. Even as Musk sounded the alarm that the race for artificial intelligence could destroy us all, he was joining it.

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ANDREW NG, the Stanford University professor who founded the Google Brain lab alongside Jeff Dean before taking over Baidu’s Silicon Valley lab. KAI YU, the researcher who founded the deep learning lab at Chinese tech giant Baidu. AT NVIDIA CLÉMENT FARABET, the Yann LeCun protégé who joined Nvidia’s efforts to build deep learning chips for driverless cars. JENSEN HUANG, CEO. AT CLARIFAI DEBORAH RAJI, the Clarifai intern who went on to explore bias in AI systems at MIT. MATTHEW ZEILER, founder and CEO. IN ACADEMIA YOSHUA BENGIO, the University of Montreal professor who carried the torch for deep learning alongside Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun in the 1990s and 2000s.

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton
Published 11 May 2023

The opportunity to invest faster in R&D accelerated years of progress for the industry – and ultimately for the end-user. Chang estimated that the community of 25 fabless companies that existed as TSMC set up had expanded 20-fold a decade later.31 TSMC won copious business but did not keep it without ferocious attention to detail. One Friday afternoon in 1999, Nvidia’s co-founder Jensen Huang received a visit from Chang, unaccompanied, carrying just a pencil and black notebook. He was in the area and checking up on a valued customer. Huang only discovered later that Chang was in the US on honeymoon with his second wife Sophie. The success of TSMC realised Li’s ambitions to slow down the brain drain.

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RISC-V also found favour in the European Union, where the European Processor Initiative (EPI) pinned hopes on it as one path to semiconductor independence for the bloc. By 2023 the EPI aimed to build a new supercomputer based on RISC-V designs. What turbocharged industry interest further were the stories that emerged through 2020 about Nvidia considering the acquisition of Arm. If Arm’s independence was about to be compromised – even though Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it would not be when a deal was eventually announced – there was no better time to explore the open-source, royalty-free back-up. Analysts speculated that the proposed $40bn takeover would actually erode Arm’s value, not crystallise it, as it helped to establish RISC-V as a credible alternative that could be used by all chipmakers but owned by none.

Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future
by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman
Published 8 Jul 2024

This means performance doubled roughly every 38 months and saw a tenfold increase about every 126 months. Consider again Moore’s Law: performance of microprocessors doubles every twenty-four months and multiplies tenfold around every eighty months. Then there’s Huang’s Law, an observation by NVIDIA’s cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang that the performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) doubles about every fifteen months and experiences a tenfold boost every fifty months. This is especially exciting for the AI field since GPUs drive most advancements there. Genome sequencing is advancing even faster, with performance doubling almost every eleven months and growing tenfold approximately every thirty-seven months.

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson

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Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre
Published 18 Jan 2023

Semiconductor Industry, 8. 28more computing power per square inch: For an overview of computing trends, see Khan and Mann, AI Chips, 7–11; Kenneth Flamm, “Measuring Moore’s Law: Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes” (working paper, National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2018), https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24553/w24553.pdf. 28chip performance continues to improve: Moore’s law is widely considered “dead,” not because chips are no longer improving but because transistor density is no longer doubling at the rate predicted by Moore’s law (every two years). Shara Tibken, “CES 2019: Moore’s Law Is Dead, Says Nvidia’s CEO,” CNET, January 9, 2019,https://www.cnet.com/news/moores-law-is-dead-nvidias-ceo-jensen-huang-says-at-ces-2019/; David Rotman, “We’re Not Prepared for the End of Moore’s Law,” MIT Technology Review, February 24, 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/24/905789/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/; Khan and Mann, AI Chips, 7–11; Hassan N. Khan, David A Hounshell, and Erica R.H.