Jensen Huang Net Worth 2024: Salary, House, Cars, and Other Details of Nvidia CEO

Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, is an entrepreneur who currently serves as the President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation. In 1993, Huang, along with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, co-founded NVIDIA, which would become the biggest graphic chip maker in the world. 

Since the discovery of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), the corporation has completely transformed computer graphics and is dominating the PC gaming business. In 2018, NVIDIA was included among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies,” and MIT Tech Review’s “50 Smartest Companies,” among others. 

Jensen Huang’s net worth as of today is $77.8B. He is the 21st richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg’s data.

Education

Jensen Huang was born in Taiwan in 1963 and later moved to the United States when he was a teenager. He went to Aloha High School, outside Portland, skipped two years of school, and graduated when he was sixteen years old.

In 1984, Huang enrolled at Oregon State University for his undergraduate studies and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1992, he graduated from Stanford University, an Ivy League school, with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. 

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Career

After graduation, he joined LSI Logic, a storage company, as a director. He then moved on to  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), as a microprocessor designer, and worked there for a while. 

In 1993, Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded NVIDIA Corporation. The same year, he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year” in High Technology by Ernst & Young. Since its inception, Huang has served as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). According to Forbes, Huang owns approximately 3% of NVIDIA’s stock. 

NVIDIA Corp became a trillion-dollar company, with its evaluation surpassing that of mega giants like Alphabet and Amazon. It is now a mega-giant itself and the fourth-highest valued company, after Microsoft, Apple, and Saudi Aramco, respectively.

Jensen Huang’s Net Worth

According to Forbes’ real-time billionaire index, Jensen Huang’s net worth is over $77.8 billion. He is the 21st richest person in the world. 

Forbes’ net worth tracker also shows that in 2020, Huang’s net worth was around $4 billion, but the next year it grew by a staggering 192%, reaching $11.7 billion. Since 2021, the global increase in demand for technology and the growth of PC gaming and artificial intelligence have charted the path to the success of NVIDIA’s products. 

Growing from $11.8 billion in 2021 to $20.6 billion in 2022, then $21.1 billion in 2023, and finally $63.8 billion in 2024, Huang’s net worth has skyrocketed.

Jensen Huang’s Salary

The current details of Jensen Huang’s salary are not available. However, in 2007, he was the 64th highest-paid CEO in the United States. 

Jensen Huang’s net worth as of today makes him the 21st wealthiest person on the globe. 

Interesting Details About Jensen Huang

• Jensen Huang is fond of biker jackets. For the last decade or more, NVIDIA’s CEO has been seen to be dressing up in shiny, black leather jackets to keynotes.
• He established NVIDIA on his birthday, April 5, 2023. Both he and his trillion-dollar company were “born” on the same day, just a few years apart.
• GPUs, which have become one of the most important aspects of computers and laptops nowadays, were first produced by NVIDIA.
• He gave $30 million to the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center at Stanford University. It is one of the four buildings in Stanford’s Science and Engineering Quad.

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