Commentary: Why Nvidia CEO is the most unexpected tech rockstar

LAUSANNE, Switzerland: At 61, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is no longer your frequent Silicon Valley tech rockstar. Meta CEO Imprint Zuckerberg achieved stardom before age 30, as did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. This week, Nvidia overtook Microsoft and Apple to became the arena’s most treasured company, at about US$3.34 trillion.

It’s no longer esteem Nvidia builds merchandise that customers can with out anxiousness talk in confidence to: Unlike iPhones or Facebook, most of us never without lengthen purchase or even look Nvidia’s graphics playing cards or synthetic intelligence chips.

Yet, fans mobbed Mr Huang on the Computex tech alternate present in Taiwan earlier this month and flocked to the restaurants and night market stalls he patronised. “Jensanity” has swept the island and the tech world.

So how did Mr Huang became the “Taylor Swift of tech”, as coined by Mr Zuckerberg?