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Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded Nvidia in 1993. The AI boom has turned the chipmaker into a $3.42 trillion giant and made Huang the 11th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $122 billion.
Today, Nvidia is at the head of the AI revolution. The company reported $30.04 billion in revenue for the second quarter of the year, doubling revenue from the same time last year and beating analyst expectations. The company’s stock is up 181% year to date.
Huang and Nvidia alike have inspired cult-like followings across the world. Huang’s signature leather jacket has spawned legions of copycats; Nvidia’s second-quarter earnings created an unofficial watch party at a bar in New York City.
On a trip to Taiwan last May, Huang was greeted with a rockstar reception and mobbed with selfie requests. And at a tech event in Taiwan in June, Huang fielded — and fulfilled — fan requests to sign Macbooks, chips, and even one woman’s top.
Some of that cult status appears to have trickled down to Kuo’s 5-year-old son.
“He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person,” Kuo said. “To him, he is like a ‘superhero.'”
Nvidia’s official Instagram page also reposted the photo of the boy, garnering more than 17,000 likes in a day.
“We spotted mini-Jensen in Taiwan, well-crafted GPUs in hand!” the caption read.
Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from BI for this story.