NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is so famous that children dress up as him on Halloween

Jensen Huang has the world at his feet. Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Satya Nadella and other technology CEOs eat from his hand. They call you every few days asking you, begging you to sell them more AI chips, and give them priority. But nowhere is it more famous than in Taiwan, where Even children dress up as the CEO of NVIDIA on Halloween.

When he was born 61 years ago in Tainan, Taiwan, the CEO and founder of NVIDIA was named Jen-Hsun Huang. At the age of 9 he emigrated to the United States, and as many Asian emigrants do, he “Americanized” his name to Jensen Huang.

As a child he was a table tennis champion, and when he grew up he graduated as an electrical engineer from Oregon State University, and later from Stanford University. Few know that He began his career designing processors for AMD.

Halloween star Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993, and has served as its CEO and president since.. Although the company has been very successful in the field of gaming graphics cards, where it has 90% of the market, first cryptocurrencies, and then artificial intelligence, have catapulted its business.

At the moment NVIDIA is the second most valuable company in the worldwith a stock market value of 3.4 billion dollars. It is slightly behind Apple, although it temporarily surpassed it a few days ago.

Jensen Huang, for his part, is close to entering the Top 10 of the richest people in the world, with a fortune of more than 100 billion dollars.

For many Taiwanese, Huang is a proud representative of the American dream: He emigrated to the United States as a child, and made a fortune.

So it is not strange that the most intelligent children see reflected in him the person they would like to be when they grow up: Taiwanese, rich and famous.

He Jensen Huang Halloween costume is a good examplealthough it seems more like a marketing strategy of the child’s mother, to promote your Facebook channelthan a request from the kid himself.

Anecdotes aside, there is no doubt that Jensen Huang surfs today on the crest of the wave. Despite the voices that warn of the AI ​​bubble. Among them, the creator of Linux himself…

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