Jensen Huang

He was a chemical and instrumentation engineer, incredible engineer.

And his job was to go start an oil refinery.

And so we moved to Thailand, lived in Bangkok.

And in 1973, 1974 time frame,

You know how Thailand, every so often, they would just have a coup.

The military would have an uprising.

And all of a sudden, one day, there were tanks and soldiers in the streets.

And my parents thought, you know, probably isn't safe for the kids to be here.

And so they contacted my uncle.

My uncle lives in Tacoma, Washington.

And we had never met him.

And my parents sent us to him.

How old were you?

Uh, I was about to turn nine and my older brother, uh, almost turned 11.

And so the two of us came to United States and we stayed in with our uncle for a little bit while he looked for a school for us.

And my parents didn't have very much money and they'd never been to United States.

My father was, I'll tell you that story in a second.

And, um,

And so my uncle found a school that would accept foreign students and affordable enough for my parents.

And that school turned out to have been in Oneida, Kentucky, Clark County, Kentucky, the epicenter of the opioid crisis today.