Sources
Where every fact on this site comes from — and how the images are licensed.
Primary and corporate sources
- NVIDIA corporate history and press releases — founding date, product launches (NV1, RIVA 128, GeForce 256, CUDA, Tesla, DGX, Hopper/Blackwell/Rubin architectures), GTC keynote materials.
- U.S. SEC filings — NVIDIA’s IPO (1999) records and the May 2022 settlement ($5.5 million) over cryptocurrency-mining revenue disclosures.
- Stanford University — Huang’s M.S. (1992); the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) commencement address, June 2024.
- Oregon State University — Huang’s B.S. (1984) and the October 2022 announcement of the $50 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang.
Speeches and interviews
- GTC keynotes (2019–2026), including the GTC 2020 DGX A100 keynote and the GTC 2024/2025 Blackwell keynotes in San Jose — quoted via contemporaneous live coverage (Tom’s Hardware, Engadget) rather than from memory.
- Stanford SIEPR commencement address (June 2024) — the “pain and suffering” speech, via coverage by CNBC, Fortune, and others.
- The Sequoia Capital oral history — Huang’s long-form retelling of the founding, the NV1 failure, and the Sega episode.
- Press interviews across business publications (2015–2026) — the source of reported quotes flagged as such on Sayings.
Press and profiles
Contemporaneous reporting from major business and technology outlets on product launches, earnings, the crypto-mining controversies, export-control policy, and sovereign-AI state visits. Reported figures (net worth, Sega payment, RIVA 128 unit sales) are attributed to these profiles and flagged as reported, not confirmed.
Image provenance
Every photograph on this site is a real photograph from Wikimedia Commons, public-domain or Creative-Commons licensed, with attribution in the captions and full records in the image credits on this page (shipped with the site build). AI-generated images appear only as labeled dramatization art: the Vizlings-style character illustrations and the social content pack. No AI-generated image on this site depicts the real Jensen Huang.
| File | Subject | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| jensen-huang-2024.jpg | Huang, 2024 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Peter Dasilva | CC BY 4.0 |
| huang-stanford-2026.jpg | Huang at Stanford, 2026 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Anderseidesvik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| huang-ces-2025-keynote.jpg | GTC/CES keynote, 2025 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Joseph Zadeh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| huang-ces-2025-keynote-b.jpg | NVIDIA keynote, Las Vegas 2025 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Pronoia | CC0 |
| huang-ces-2025-rtx.jpg | Huang with RTX laptop, CES 2025 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Pronoia | CC0 |
| huang-computex-2016.jpg | Computex Taipei, 2016 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by NVIDIA Taiwan | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-computex-2016-b.jpg | Computex Taipei, 2016 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by NVIDIA Taiwan | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-computex-2010.jpg | Computex Taipei, 2010 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Masaru Kamikura | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-gtc-japan-2016.jpg | GTC Japan, 2016 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Masaru Kamikura | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-taiwan-2023.jpg | Taiwan visit, 2023 | Wikimedia Commons, Office of the President (Taiwan) | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-sc18.jpg | Supercomputing 2018 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Raysonho | CC0 |
| huang-mobile-media.jpg | Mobile media event, c. 2007 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Rico Shen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| huang-gesturing.jpg | Keynote gesture | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Maurizio Pesce | CC BY 2.0 |
| huang-modi-2024.jpg | With PM Narendra Modi, 2024 | Wikimedia Commons, Prime Minister’s Office (India) | GODL-India |
| huang-vietnam-2024.jpg | Vietnam meeting, 2024 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by VQTCS | CC BY 4.0 |
| huang-borrell-2024.jpg | With Josep Borrell, 2024 | Wikimedia Commons, photo by Peter Dasilva | CC BY 4.0 |
| huang-signature.svg | Huang’s signature | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
What this site could not verify
- Exact dollar figures for the 1990s Sega payment and early venture rounds (reported in profiles; absent from filings).
- Precise wording of quotes known only through secondary reports (flagged on Sayings).
- A single canonical origin story for the leather jacket (multiple tellings exist).
- Real-time net worth (methodology-dependent estimates; deliberately not repeated).
Source notes
This page is the master citation record for the site. Page-level “Source notes” sections point back here; Methodology describes how evidence was weighed.