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Eleanor Pringle

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says ‘to be a CEO is a lifetime of sacrifice,' but his parents prepared him for the 'pain and suffering' of leadership

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, during his visit to The Cambridge Union to receive the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship 2025 on November 04, 2025 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. (Credit: Nordin Catic - Getty Images for The Cambridge Union)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that leading a company like chipmaker Nvidia is a privilege but it also requires an individual to sacrifice their life to be of service to the business and its employees.

Huang, worth $165 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, recently gave a talk to students at the University of Cambridge, in which he described how his parents’ pursuit of success in the U.S. laid the foundation for his work ethic in building his own company. Huang, along with two friends, founded Nvidia in 1993 and over the past two decades has grown the business to a market cap of more than $4.6 trillion.

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