Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang propelled NVIDIA to a market cap briefly exceeding $3.34 trillion, making him the most important person in tech infrastructure. His prescient decade-long bet on CUDA and data center GPUs positioned NVIDIA as the sole GPU supplier for 90% of AI model training worldwide. Huang’s leather jacket-clad keynotes at GTC 2025 drew more than 50,000 attendees, the highest conference attendance in enterprise tech. Although Mark Zuckerberg has diversified Meta into AI and hardware, Huang’s core business—selling the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush—makes his leverage far greater.