The Asian Family Who Rules The World: Jensen Huang and Lisa Su

Two Taiwanese children born six years apart in Tainan grew up to run the two American companies that now design almost every chip training the world's AI. One arrived in America at nine, sent by his parents to an aunt in Tacoma who mistakenly enrolled him in a Kentucky reform academy where he cleaned toilets and was beaten in the dorms. The other arrived in Queens at three, took apart remote-controlled cars, and earned three MIT degrees before she was 30. In 2024 Nvidia, run by Jensen Huang, became the most valuable public company in the world. In the same window AMD, run by Lisa Su, went from