From washing dishes at Denny’s to rockstar of AI: the rise and fall of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

TradeNews BD multi-market desk (2026-11-12): Technical expertise and an ability to engage gave the chipmaker’s co-founder, who has now resigned, the edge with customers and investorsJensen Huang resigns… Primary source: original at The Guardian (theguardian.com).

November 12, 2026 4:17 PM GMT · The Guardian

Technical expertise and an ability to engage gave the chipmaker’s co-founder, who has now resigned, the edge with customers and investors

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs

Jensen Huang wasn’t always in his trademark leather jacket. When the multibillionaire, now former Nvidia chief executive was a teenager in the US, his first job was waiting tables and washing dishes at a branch of Denny’s.

“It teaches you humility, it teaches you hard work, it teaches you hospitality,” he said in 2023 of his time at the diner chain.