Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times.
The publication cited the company’s 2025 rise to become the world’s most valuable public company and Huang himself as a key figure in the global artificial intelligence market.
The article notes that Huang, the son of Taiwanese immigrants and an electrical engineer, has led Nvidia since its inception. He founded the company with two partners more than three decades ago, and his uninterrupted leadership, the FT notes, is the longest among top managers of major technology corporations.
The Financial Times notes that Nvidia’s growth has been made possible by a series of bold strategic decisions. Huang initially bet that traditional microprocessor designs wouldn’t be able to handle the growing demand for computing power. He assumed that the GPUs Nvidia was building for the gaming industry could eventually take on more complex tasks.
The company then created software that greatly expanded the applications of these chips and made Nvidia’s technology accessible to a wider range of developers, laying the foundation for its rapid growth in the wake of the rise of artificial intelligence.