How Nvidia’s CEO went from Denny’s dishwasher to billionaire founder

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is number one on Fortune’s Most Powerful People in Business list, but he was once Denny’s “best dishwasher" before he launched the company that now boasts a $4.3 trillion market cap.

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00:00My job at Denny's, you know, I was incredibly shy and it got me to be able to interact with people

00:07a lot better. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong is number one on Fortune's most powerful people in business

00:13list, and he's worth $157 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But his journey

00:19to success started with humble beginnings. Wong was born in Taiwan and later moved to Washington

00:24State when he was nine. His first job was as a dishwasher at Denny's, where he was later promoted

00:28to Busboy and Waiter. He attended Oregon State University prior to receiving a master's degree

00:34from Stanford University. He dreamt up NVIDIA in a Denny's booth with his two co-founders,

00:39Chris Malachowski and Curtis Prem, in 1993. Today, the company is a market cap of $4.3 trillion.

00:46After decades of naysayers dismissing the value of Wong's specialized computer chips,

00:51that hardware is now the most coveted by companies in developing artificial intelligence.

00:55That's why NVIDIA is the most valuable company traded on US exchanges today.

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