Adrian Weckler: From reform school in Kentucky to master of the Silicon universe – how it all went right for Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

With its mind-boggling $5trn valuation, the Nvidia boss’s company is now worth more than every country in the world’s GDP – bar the US and China – and every pizza ever sold

Nvidia’s main risk, according to biographer Stephen Witt, is how dependent everything is on him, personally. ‘There’s no-one else. He has no successor.’ Photo: Getty

Last week, Nvidia became the first company to surpass a $5 trillion (€4.4 trillion) valuation.

That’s worth more than every country’s GDP, except for the US and China. It’s worth more than the entire crypto market, the entire gold market and, according to one colourful estimate, every pizza ever sold in history.

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