From washing dishes at Denny’s to rockstar of AI: the rise and fall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Technical expertise and an ability to engage gave the chipmaker’s co-founder, who has now resigned, the edge with customers and investors Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs Jensen Huang wasn’t always in his trademark leather jacket.
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- “It teaches you humility, it teaches you hard work, it teaches you hospitality,” he said in 2023 of his time at the diner chain.
Within days, Huang's status as a seemingly untouchable figure leading the global tech race has crumbled.
When the multibillionaire, now former Nvidia chief executive was a teenager in the US, his first job was waiting tables and washing dishes at a branch of Denny’s.
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