Technical expertise and an ability to engage gave the chipmaker’s co-founder, who has now resigned, the edge with customers and investors

• Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after alleged affairs

Jensen Huang wasn’t always in his trademark leather jacket. When the multibillionaire, now former Nvidia chief executive was a teenager in the US, his first job was waiting tables and washing dishes at a branch of Denny’s.

“It teaches you humility, it teaches you hard work, it teaches you hospitality,” he said in 2023 of his time at the diner chain.