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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Nvidia’s CEO got $4.2billion richer overnight after earnings blew Wall Street away

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the Taipei Computex expo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, May 29, 2023. (Credit: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg - Getty Images)

August 20 was a good day to be Jensen Huang. The CEO of Nvidia—which engineers chips and systems—saw his net worth leap by more than $4 billion overnight, courtesy of a better-than-expected earnings call.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index, Huang's fortune stood at $38.8 billion on August 20. By the close of play on August 21, that had risen to $42 billion.

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