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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 wasn’t always in his trademark leather jacket. 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.
“It teaches you humility, it teaches you hard work, it teaches you hospitality,” he said in 2023 of his time at the diner chain.
Decades later, having become one of the richest people on the planet, Huang put on a Denny’s apron in tribute to his former employer at an Nvidia event in 2025.
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