This person worked as waiter in hotels to meet living expenses, now he is richer than Ambani and Tata
MUMBAI: Jensen Huang is an example of how big you can get if you work hard for your dreams. Huang is the founder and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable public company. He is currently ranked 11th among the world's richest people, overtaking Reliance's Mukesh Ambani and Tata's Ratan Tata.
Huang's net worth is four billion dollars (Rs. 3,34,06,60,00,000). This is the first time that Huang has reached such a high rank on the Forbes Rich List. Nvidia has overtaken tech giants Microsoft and Apple to become the world's most valuable public company.
The company's shares rose 3.4 percent to a market capitalization of about $3.3 trillion. With an average daily turnover of $50 billion, Nvidia has emerged as the most traded company on Wall Street, surpassing the daily turnover of Apple, Microsoft and Tesla.
Jensen Huang was born in 1963 in Tainan in Taiwan. His family immigrated to Thailand at the age of five. At the age of nine, the family sent Huang and his brother to live with a relative in Washington. During his studies, Huang worked as a waiter in hotels to earn money for his living expenses.
In 1993, Hwang founded Nvidia with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. By 2007, he had risen to the 61st highest paid CEO in America. His salary at the time was $24.6 million.