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Huang founded Nvidia at a Denny's roadside diner in East San Jose, California, where he and co-founders Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem met frequently in 1992 to formulate their business plan. The company was formally incorporated on the 5th of April, 1993, with total starting capital of $600.
At age nine, Huang and his older brother were enrolled by their aunt and uncle in the Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky, a religious reform academy for troubled youth that the relatives mistakenly believed to be a prestigious boarding school. Because he was too young for classes there, Huang was educated at Oneida Elementary School in Oneida, Kentucky.
Nvidia bet on quadrilateral primitives for graphics rendering instead of the triangles favored by competitors, a strategy that nearly ended the company. A $5 million investment from Sega kept it alive long enough to pivot to triangles, but by the time the RIVA 128 shipped in August 1997 and saved Nvidia, the company had just one month of payroll remaining.
Forbes estimates Jensen Huang's net worth at over $200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world. His wealth is tied primarily to his 3.6% ownership stake in Nvidia, which went public in 1999.
In October 2025, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion, a milestone achieved under Huang's continuous leadership as president and CEO since the company's founding in 1993.
Jensen and Lori Huang established the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation in 2007 with a donation of $330 million in Nvidia shares. By late 2025 the foundation's assets had grown to exceed $12 billion, and it disbursed $123 million in 2024 while projecting $369 million in distributions in 2025.