In 1978, 15-year-old Jensen Huang got his first job as a dishwasher at Denny’s. 45 years later, he returned to the diner to unveil a plaque marking where Nvidia began

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once used to work as a dishwasher at Denny’s before he being “promoted” to the role of busboy. It was back in 1978 when he got his first job, Huang revealed during a March 2024 interview with Stanford Graduate School of Business. “I never left the station empty-handed. I never came back empty-handed. I was very efficient,” Huang said.

The advanced chip manufacturer company's CEO is now worth billions of dollars. According to the Nvidia blog post, Huang, and Sun Microsystems employees, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, met at one of Denny’s “most popular” locations in Northern California in 1993 to discuss “creating a chip that would enable realistic 3D graphics on personal computers.”