NVIDIA: Jensen Huang Bet Big on AI. What Comes Next?

LinkedIn presents. I'm Rufus Griskom and this is the next big idea. Today, how Jensen Huang took NVIDIA from laughingstock to the most valuable company in the world. In 1973, a typical school day for Jensen Huang, aged 10, began like this. He awoke in his dormitory at the Oneida Baptist Institute, a boarding school in southeastern Kentucky, surrounded by the Appalachian Mountains, and not much else.

He'd enrolled there at the behest of his uncle, who believed Oneida was a prestigious prep school. In fact, it was a religious reform academy. Jensen's classmates were malcontented representatives. Everyone smoked, many carried pocket knives for self-defense, some were illiterate. To them, Jensen was the perfect target.

Unusually small for his age and speaking very little English, he'd only recently immigrated from Taiwan, Jensen attracted bullies the way a bare light bulb attracts mosquitoes. They shoved him in the hallways, chased him on the playground, hurled every racist epithet you can imagine, and some you probably can't. But their favorite stratagem was to surprise him on his way to school, which required crossing a rope bridge. It's like a bridge from like Temple of Doom, this like swinging rope bridge with like planks, okay? And the planks are like busted, you can see through and there's like a frigid river below you.

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