In the summer of 2025, Jensen Huang, executive president of GPU factory NVIDIA (NVIDIA), once again became the focus of attention in the global technology and financial circles. Not only did it break through US$4 trillion in market value, it became...
In the summer of 2025, Jensen Huang, executive president of GPU factory NVIDIA (NVIDIA), once again became the focus of attention in the global technology and financial circles. Not only did it break through US$4 trillion in market value, it became the first company in history to reach this point, but also because he shared that he "work from getting up to falling asleep" every day, triggering a global "work and life balance" discussion.
Reported by "Fortune", born in Huang Renshan, Tainan, Taiwan, immigrated to the United States at the age of 9. When he was young, he worked as a dishwasher at the Denny's restaurant. In 1993, he and two co-founders founded NVIDIA, and now he is one of the most influential corporate leaders in the global technology industry. NVIDIA has been promoted from a graphics card manufacturer to a core platform provider for AI-accelerated computing, and its GPUs are applied in key fields such as data centers, vehicle chips, machine learning, quantum simulation and generative artificial intelligence.
Huang Renshi once said that I was working from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed. I work seven days a week. When I wasn't working, I was actually thinking about work. I would go to movies, but I usually don’t remember movies because I still think about work in my brain. Huang Renshi's passage shocked many people and quickly sparked heated discussions on LinkedIn, X and financial media. Some people praise his respect and achievements, while others doubt whether he has overdeprecated the successful corporate culture of prosperity.
Huang Rensheng's leader style can be high pressure and high pay, because according to the news from "Business Insider" and NVIDIA employees, he works about 14 hours a day and controls the details, often through one-to-one meetings, self-supervision and project schedule. Although he demands strictness, the company's internal employee turnover rate is extremely low, partly because of the company's stock price surge and employees' shareholding remuneration. Therefore, NVIDIA employees generally have awe of Huang Renfeng and believe that he is a small number of leaders who can transform extremely high work standards into specific results. Under the leadership of Huang Rensha, the company's market value has surged by more than 1,600% in the past five years. From the end of 2024 to mid-2025 alone, the market value has exceeded 4 trillion US dollars in one go from about 3 trillion US dollars.
According to the author of the Huang Rensheng journal, it is not greed or pure power that will support the work of the day and night, but "terror" for failure. This immigrant child who is an ordinary family and has completed education through awards has never left all memory and worry. He firmly believes that only by constantly moving forward and not being able to relax can we survive in the cool technology battlefield. And this attitude of "driven achievements with fear" also explains his timidity and caution in key decision making. He is willing to bet on AI, big model training and CUDA platforms for many years, and even though he has not reported it in the early days, he is now laying the foundation for AI dominance for the company.
After the interview was published, the world has once again launched a discussion on whether success is worth changing with life. Some entrepreneurs and field workers left messages saying that Huangren's status is "too extreme" and "difficult to copy", and some even believe that it is to help grow up culture. Another group of people think this type of leader is different from ordinary people because they are willing to do what ordinary people don’t want to do and continue to do it for decades. But despite this, Huang Rensha still shows strong control and energy. Recently, he has personally hosted many new chip releases, including the future route map of Blackwell and Rubin architectures, and has also actively deployed enterprise-level AI ecosystem expansion plans.
Huang Renshi's life and management style are undoubtedly one of the most controversial and symbolic leaders of this AI generation. He has made the world aware that from an Asian immigrant who washes dishes in a restaurant to the helm of the world's most valuable enterprise, it is not only an opportunity and intelligence, but also a diversification of ordinary people's self-discipline, perseverance and fear management. This executive who only sleeps for a few hours a day and cannot watch movies carefully, perhaps not the model that everyone wants to be. It is the most realistic example of the exchange of technology and capital, that is, a person who cannot stop moving forward and stands at the top of the AI world.
