Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the dominant chipmaker in AI compute. In a 2023 internal speech at NVIDIA, he set a market-cap target of $2 trillion when the company had just crossed $1 trillion; by mid-2025 it had surpassed $4 trillion, with ZhenFund partner Yusen Dai predicting it could soon hit $5 trillion . Huang is described by industry observers as both "a great engineer" and "a great sales" figure who "knows how to say the right thing and do the right thing at the right time" . His early biography traces back to a Denny's in Portland, where at age 15 he worked as a dishwasher and later, in 1993, met with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem to sketch out what would become NVIDIA . In his view, NVIDIA was never merely a chip vendor: he bet on parallel computing and GPU architecture as far back as the 1990s, when the industry dismissed it as a marginal direction useful only for gaming graphics, and stuck with CUDA through years when the company was valued at barely $1 billion until deep learning made that narrative the technical foundation of the AI era . He is also an active user of AI products—Perplexity AI's CEO has noted that Huang uses the search engine "almost every day" .