Jensen Huang Net Worth

What is Jensen Huang's Net Worth?

Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire business magnate and electrical engineer who has a net worth of $140 billion. Jensen Huang is the co-founder and longtime CEO of NVIDIA, the semiconductor company behind the most important chips powering artificial intelligence, gaming, data centers, and more. Since co-founding NVIDIA in 1993, Huang has served as its only CEO, steering the company from a niche graphics card maker into a global tech powerhouse. Under his leadership, NVIDIA went public in 1999 and has consistently pushed the boundaries of computing, particularly in GPU technology. The company's chips have become essential for machine learning and AI applications, driving explosive demand in recent years.

NVIDIA's market value has seen unprecedented growth since the AI boom began in the early 2020s. After briefly dipping to a $300 billion market cap in late 2022, NVIDIA rebounded and reached $1 trillion in May 2023. By mid-2024, it crossed $2 trillion, then $3 trillion, and finally hit a $4 trillion valuation in July 2025, making it the most valuable company in the world. Through it all, Huang's steady leadership and strategic focus on AI and data infrastructure helped position NVIDIA at the center of the next computing revolution.

Huang owns approximately 3.5% of NVIDIA's equity and holds millions of vested options. That stake has made him one of the richest people on the planet, with a net worth of $140 billion at a $4 trillion valuation. Remarkably, he once earned $2.65 an hour working as a teenage dishwasher at Denny's. Today, he ranks among the world's wealthiest individuals—thanks to decades of patience, vision, and an unshakable belief in the power of accelerated computing.

Nvidia Stock Holdings

As of this writing, Jensen Huang owns 3.5% of Nvidia's total outstanding shares. He also owns an additional 3 million vested restricted stock units.

Early Life and Education

Jensen Huang was born as Jen-Hsun Huang on February 17, 1963, in Tainan City, Taiwan. When he was nine, he moved with his family to the United States, living at first in Oneida, Kentucky. There, he went to the boarding school, Oneida Baptist Institute. Huang and his family eventually settled in Oregon, where Huang attended Aloha High School in the suburbs of Portland. He went on to attend Oregon State University in Corvallis, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering in 1984. After that, Huang enrolled in an electrical engineering master's program at Stanford University. He graduated with his degree in 1992.

Career Beginnings

After earning his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1992, Huang became a director at LSI Logic Corporation in Santa Clara. He also worked as a microprocessor designer at the Santa Clara-based semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices.

Nvidia Corporation

In 1993, Huang co-founded the technology company Nvidia with former Sun Microsystems engineer Chris Malachowsky and former Sun and IBM senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer, Curtis Priem. The three men believed that the next wave of computing should be graphics-based, and understood that video games were the next big thing in that area. In 1998, Nvidia solidified its reputation as a leader in graphics adapters with the release of the RIVA TNT, a graphics accelerator chip for PCs. The following year, Nvidia released the GeForce 256, which introduced on-board transformation and lighting to consumer-grade 3D hardware. The company also went public that year. Nvidia went on to make many major acquisitions in the new millennium, purchasing such companies as 3Dfx, Exluna, MediaQ, iReady, ULI Electronics, Hybrid Graphics, and Ageia.

Nvidia is particularly renowned for its professional line of GPUs, which is used in a wide range of fields including engineering, architecture, entertainment media, manufacturing, and scientific research. The company also designs an API called CUDA that facilitates the creation of massively parallel programs utilizing GPUs. They are used in supercomputing throughout the world. As it has expanded, Nvidia has moved more into mobile computing, including vehicle navigation systems and mobile processors for smartphones and tablets. Additionally, it has widened its presence in the gaming industry by creating handheld consoles, such as the Shield Portable, as well as the cloud gaming service GeForce Now. Nvidia has also grown into a leader in artificial intelligence.

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Philanthropy

Jensen Huang has made several notable philanthropic contributions, often focused on education and technology. In 2022, he donated $50 million to his alma mater, Oregon State University, to help establish a state-of-the-art supercomputing institute on campus. He also gave $30 million to Stanford University, where he earned his master's degree in electrical engineering, to fund the construction of the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.

Huang has also remembered his early beginnings. He donated $2 million to Oneida Baptist Institute, the Kentucky boarding school he attended as a child, which was used to build a new girls' dormitory and classroom building.

One of his most significant, yet lower-profile acts of giving came in 2007, when he and his wife, Lori, seeded the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation with a donation of 370,000 shares of NVIDIA stock. At the time, those shares were worth approximately $12.6 million. According to public filings, the foundation now holds 68.5 million shares of NVIDIA, which are currently worth approximately $11 billion, placing it among the 15 largest private foundations in the United States.

Through both headline-making gifts and quietly compounding generosity, Huang has built a philanthropic legacy rooted in education, gratitude, and a belief in the transformative power of technology.

Honors and Awards

Many honors and awards have been bestowed upon Huang for both his corporate and philanthropic endeavors. In 2003, he earned the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award from the Fabless Semiconductor Association. Huang later received the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California. In 2007, he received the Pioneer Business Leader Award from the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, and in 2009 received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Oregon State. Huang's other laurels have included the Robert N. Noyce Award, the highest honor given by the Semiconductor Industry Association. In 2021, he was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Personal Life & Real Estate

Huang is married to Lori, whom he first met when they were engineering lab partners at Oregon State. The couple has two children together.

Not long after graduating from Oregon State, Jensen and Lori bought a 1,500 square foot home in San Jose, California. They sold this home in 1988 for $185,000. That same year, they paid $338,000 for a new home in San Jose. In 1999, the year NVIDIA went public. In 2002, the Huangs sold their home for $500,000.

In 2003, the Huangs paid $6.9 million for a newly built 7,000 square foot mansion in Los Altos Hills, California. They continue to own this home today, and it appears to be their primary California mansion.

In 2004, the Huangs paid $7.5 million for an 8,000 square foot mansion within a gated community in Maui.

In 2017, they paid $37 million for a newly constructed, 11,400 square foot mansion in San Francisco.

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