"I had all kinds of jobs and we went to a school that included a lot of chores," Huang said last spring in fireside chat with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. His parents 'weren't wealthy,' Huang noted, and both their influence alongside his Kentucky boarding school instilled in him the value of hard work.
"You can't unsee that kind of stuff. But that was my job and so I did it delightfully," he said of his chore as a 9-year-old boy. Huang speaks of his days at Denny's not infrequently, with the underlining thesis that he worked hard and put his all into a difficult job.
Denny's later became the equivalent of a Steve Jobs garage for Huang, as the CEO said that he met future cofounders Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in 1993. There, the three discussed what would become the kernel of Nvidia over cups of coffee and Moons Over My Hammy.
Over the next few decades, the chip manufacturer heated up in a major way and demand for its AI hardware soared this year. In June, the company was valued at $3 trillion, catapulting Huang's net worth to $106.1 billion.
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