Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the American technology company at the epicenter of the AI boom, which in 2025 became the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalization exceeding $5 trillion (€4.3 trillion), has been named “Person of the Year” by the Financial Times.
The leading newspaper in the City of London highlights the role played by the Nvidia co-founder, who has led the company continuously since 1993, in the transformation that has turned chips into “the engine of the AI boom sweeping the business and financial world.”
In addition to considering him a key figure in the adoption of a technology capable of transforming entire industries, the article notes that Huang, 62, has been at the heart of one of the largest investment programs ever undertaken by the private sector, which has boosted the US economy and sustained a stock market boom.
However, the newspaper highlights Huang’s ability to negotiate with Donald Trump’s White House as one of his greatest achievements, pointing out that, aside from praising the president during joint appearances, he has proven adept at closing deals, such as the sale of chips to Saudi Arabia and the transfer of a percentage of Nvidia’s sales in China to the government in exchange for export licenses.
Under the leadership of Jensen Huang, whose longevity as an executive is highlighted by the Financial Times—he has remained uninterrupted at the helm of the company he founded in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem—Nvidia has become the most valuable publicly traded company in history, after being the first, and so far only, company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, a milestone achieved on October 29th.
Although Nvidia’s valuation has since fallen to around $4.4 trillion (€3.8 trillion), the company remains the most valuable in the world, and Huang himself is projected to end 2025 with a net worth of over $160 billion (€136.515 billion), placing him among the 10 richest people in the world.
The selection of Nvidia’s CEO by the ‘Financial Times’ adds a new technological representative to the list of the most outstanding personality each year since 2007 by the British newspaper, which in previous editions chose figures from the sector such as Steve Jobs (2010), Tim Cook (2014), Satya Nadella (2019) or Elon Musk (2021).
