Controversy surrounding NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair has cost him ₹64,600 crore. His net worth has fallen by $6.8 billion or ₹64,600 crore in a single day. His latest reported net worth stood at $155.4 billion or 14.76 lakh crore, according to Forbes. On Monday, the shares of NVIDIA slumped 4% to close at $178.67 apiece on the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange in the US stock market. Over the past month, the company’s stock has dropped by more than 22%. The latest reported market cap of the tech giant stood at nearly $4.3 trillion or ₹408 lakh crore. Huang drops to 10th from 8th in Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List Huang’s ranking in World’s Billionaires list dropped from No. 8 to No. 10 in Forbes Billionaire ranking placing him below Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett and Oracle’s Larry Ellison. How did Jensen Huang amass over $155 billion in wealth? Huang is currently world’s 10th-richest person, with a net worth of over $155 billion or ₹14.76 lakh crore. The Taiwanese-American businessman and electrical engineer built most of his wealth through his stake in NVIDIA, the chipmaker he co-founded in 1993 and has led as CEO since its beginning. He has turned a modest-sized computer chip company founded 33 years. Celebrity Net Worth says NVIDIA’s growth from a graphics-chip company into a major supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) computing equipment played a key role in Huang’s rise. From a dishwasher to a billionaire Born on February 17, 1963, in Tainan, Taiwan, Huang moved to the US as a child. He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University and later completed a master’s degree at Stanford University in 1992. Citing Huang’s interview with Stanford Graduate School of Business, a ‘The Economic Times’ report mentions that the NVIDIA CEO once worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant in America before he established the chip-making company. He also worked at AMD and LSI Logic before founding NVIDIA in April 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. NVIDIA faced early financial difficulties but survived with support from Sega executive Shoichiro Irimajiri. Its RIVA 128 graphics chip became an early commercial success in 1997. The company went public in January 1999. How much of NVIDIA does Jensen Huang own? NVIDIA’s 2026 filing showed that Huang beneficially owned 870.6 million shares, equal to 3.58% of the company, as of March 23, 2026. This includes foundation shares. Excluding these, his holdings stood at around 811.9 million shares. According to Celebrity Net Worth (CNW), every $10 change in NVIDIA’s share price changes the value of these holdings by approximately $8.1 billion. This makes him NVIDIA’s largest known individual shareholder among its disclosed executives and non-institutional shareholders. How much salary does Jensen Huang get from NVIDIA? According to ‘Fortune’ for 2026, Huang received total compensation of $36.3 million. This included a $2 million or ₹19 crore annual salary. His compensation was $49.9 million in fiscal 2025 and $34.2 million in fiscal 2024. How much wealth NVIDIA IPO investors generated? According to Yahoo Finance, an initial $1,000 investment in NVIDIA’s January 22, 1999 initial public offering (IPO) has grown to over $4.9 million to $9 million+, depending on stock split adjustments and exact valuation peaks, delivering a cumulative return of roughly +4,50,000% to +4,90,000%. Investors made 4,500x return in 27 years from NVIDIA IPO IPO Price Shares: NVIDIA went public on January 22, 1999, at an initial price of $12 per share. Considering Friday’s closing scrip price of $186 on NSDAQ and numerous stock splits, the value of investments made during IPO has grown 4,500x in 27 years. Its investment in GPU computing, CUDA software and AI infrastructure later helped drive its growth. NVIDIA’s market value crossed $1 trillion in 2023 and $5 trillion in October 2025. The philanthropy side of the world’s 8th richest Huang and his wife Lori have donated to Stanford University, Oregon State University and Oneida Baptist Institute. Their foundation, established in 2007, reported $9.2 billion in assets at the end of 2024 and $126.3 million in grants paid during that year. The couple has two children, Spencer and Madison. They have also owned properties in California and Maui, including a $37 million San Francisco mansion purchased in 2017. What controversy did Huang get entangled in? Huang, admitted to an extramarital affair with a Chinese woman. US intelligence agencies suspect that the woman was spying for China and used her closeness to Huang to pass important information linked to the US government to China. After the matter came to light, Nvidia’s board launched an investigation into Huang. According to a report by The New York Times, Huang admitted to the affair with the woman before the company’s board on Sunday. He also apologised to his wife and children. I betrayed my wife. My actions caused pain to her and my children. I have no excuse for what I did. I regret it. -Huang Report prepared under Rubio’s oversight mentions espionage plot A confidential report was prepared this year under the supervision of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The report said that China’s intelligence agency had prepared Alice Huang to get close to Jensen Huang. It was given to officials shortly before Trump’s visit to China. Nvidia’s board said that, so far, there was no indication that any confidential company information or information related to US security had been leaked. Even so, an external lawyer will be appointed to investigate the matter. Jensen Huang will co-operate with the investigation and remain CEO. Intelligence agency had been monitoring Chinese woman According to the report, the woman’s name is Alice Huang. She is also known as Huang Le. US officials claim that she was working for China’s Ministry of State Security. US intelligence agencies had been monitoring her for more than a year. During this period, they discovered that she was sending information directly to China. According to the woman’s online profile, she had worked as a television reporter in China. She later became a senior executive at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed. The company is among Nvidia’s major customers in Southeast Asia. Since June 2024, Megaspeed has bought more than $4.8 billion worth of chips from Nvidia. The US Department of Commerce had already been investigating whether Megaspeed was helping deliver restricted AI chips to China. Nvidia continued doing business with Megaspeed even after the US government investigation began. Jensen Huang and Alice Huang are not related. 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