Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Leather-jacketed boss of trillion-dollar chip firm
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:When the pandemic forced Nvidia Corp to hold a major product launch virtually, CEO Jensen Huang beamed video to promote the event from his kitchen, where he pulled the company's latest chip out of his oven.
"I've got something I've gotta show you," Huang says while reaching for a pot holder. "This has been cooking for a while," he says before grunting to lift a circuit board the size of a baking sheet from the oven to show "the world's largest graphics card."
That's the type of showmanship that has turned the Taiwanese-American immigrant, who typically wears a black leather motorcycle jacket for product launches, into one of the best known names in the computing business.
On Tuesday, he joined an elite list of tech executives to head a company worth $1 trillion.
Huang, 60, is only the second U.S. CEO after Amazon.com Inc's Jeff Bezos, who helmed the retailer until 2021, to hit such a milestone for a company they co-founded.
