Trump's new billionaire bestie
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How did NVIDIA go from gaming GPUs to the world's most valuable company?
The biggest company in the world has been making the same product since 1993. GPUs, graphics processing units, or chips. It was niche at first. If you were a really serious gamer back in like 1998, you'd be buying one of NVIDIA's graphics cards and putting that into your high-powered gaming computer. In 2025, NVIDIA is still making chips, but now those chips are more advanced and they're being sold to people who are training AI models, your clods and your chat GPTs. AI has become such a big part of the American economy that the entire stock market can swing on whether NVIDIA releases a good earnings report or a bad one. Meanwhile, President Trump has developed a work bromance with NVIDIA's co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
This is a smart cookie. Coming up on today, explain what does Jensen Wang really want?
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Today Explained. I'm Noelle King with Robbie Whelan of The Wall Street Journal. Robbie, we are gathered here today to talk about NVIDIA. Its importance is reflected in how much this company is worth. Tell me where it sits in the economic firmament. Is it bigger than Coke? NVIDIA is the most valuable company on planet Earth today. Oh! Damn, how much is it worth? Its market cap is currently $4.5 trillion. Wow. There's never been a company as big as NVIDIA. Tell me about Jensen Huang, the man behind the company. Jensen Huang is the co-founder and chief executive of NVIDIA. I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. And I work seven days a week. When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working.
He was born in Taiwan.
We're going to build the first giant AI supercomputer here for the AI infrastructure and the AI ecosystem of Taiwan.
Which has really become the mental, the intellectual epicenter of the AI boom. The technology industry depends very heavily on Taiwan and continues to. And he moved to the U.S. when he was a young man, when he was a child actually. We were in Thailand. I was just about almost 10 years old. And recently, Thailand had a coup. Right. And my parents thought that it was unsafe for us to be there. He ended up going, hilariously, to a boarding school. It actually ended up being a reform school. There were a lot of difficult and very tough kids. My roommate was 17 years old. And I still remember that when we were getting ready for bed that night, you know, he took off his shirt and he had stab wounds all over his body.
Today, he is not only just the CEO of the largest company on planet Earth, he's also an incredibly influential and powerful person in foreign relations, in international diplomacy. Technology is now so important in politics and geopolitics. It is the single most important industry in America. It is our national treasure. He's a very good friend of President Donald Trump. Jensen's an amazing guy. Everybody knows Jensen. You're taking over the world, Jensen. I don't know what you're doing here. And I think it's not a stretch to say he's one of the most important individual people on Earth right now, just given how much power and how much economic might he oversees.
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