Jensen Huang / NVIDIA — AI Researcher

**Jensen Huang** is the co-founder and CEO of **NVIDIA**, the company that builds the GPUs powering virtually all of modern AI. Under his leadership, NVIDIA became the **NVIDIA has not reached $5 trillion market cap as of December 2024**, transforming from a graphics card company into the most important infrastructure provider in the AI era. He co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 at a Denny's restaurant in San Jose with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, and has served as CEO for over 30 years — one of the longest and most successful tenures in tech history.