Methodology
How we decide what counts as a fact — and what to do when it doesn't.
The subject is alive
Jensen Huang is a living person, active as CEO of NVIDIA. That sets the rules: neutral tone, no speculation about motives or private life, no repeating rumors, and a hard distinction between what is documented and what is merely reported. Criticism that is documented (the SEC settlement, the crypto controversies, export-control debates) is included factually. Gossip is not.
The evidence ladder
- Documented — corporate records, SEC filings, university records, video of speeches, contemporaneous press coverage. Stated as fact with citation.
- Reported — consistent across reputable profiles and interviews, but without primary-source confirmation (e.g., the Sega $5M figure, early venture amounts). Stated with attribution: “reported.”
- Claimed — originates with Huang or NVIDIA marketing (e.g., “world’s first GPU”). Stated as a claim, with the counter-evidence where it exists.
- Unverified — circulates without a traceable source. Not stated as fact; listed on Sayings and The myth machine with a warning.
Quote policy
- Verbatim only. A line appears in quotation marks only if it is documented on video/transcript or in contemporaneous coverage, or — for “reported” quotes — consistently rendered across secondary sources.
- No paraphrase as quotation. Summaries of his positions are presented as summaries.
- Context preserved. Quotes carry their occasion (which keynote, which interview) so readers can judge them.
Numbers policy
- Financial figures from filings are stated as filed.
- Figures from interviews and profiles (revenues of the 1990s, unit sales, payments) are flagged as reported.
- Net worth is never stated as a number on this site. Published billionaire estimates are models that move with the stock price; repeating one would be stale on arrival and misleadingly precise.
Uncertainty labels
Where dates or details are disputed, the page says so inline — “reported,” “according to,” “profiles describe” — and The myth machine collects the major cases. Uncertainty is information, not embarrassment.
Image policy
- Real photographs only for biographical content: public-domain or Creative-Commons images from Wikimedia Commons, with source, license, and attribution in
the image credits on this pageand in captions. - Never AI-generated for the real person. No generated image on this site depicts Jensen Huang as a photograph would.
- Generated art is allowed only for (a) the Vizlings character dramatization — the animated “Techlords” character, labeled “AI-generated dramatization art — not a historical depiction”; (b) abstract/conceptual illustration; (c) the social content pack, every piece labeled AI-generated.
What this site is not
It is not authorized by Huang or NVIDIA, not an investment guide, and not a hagiography. It is an independent reference that cites its sources and shows its work.
Source notes
This methodology governs every page on the site. Questions about specific evidence are answered on Sources and the page-level source notes.