Leather Jackets and Superchips: Inside the Life of NVIDIA’s Fearless Leader

Jensen’s early years were far from easy. When he was only nine years old, his parents sent him and his older brother to the United States, hoping for a better life and education. The two boys arrived in Tacoma, Washington, to live with their uncle, who unknowingly sent them to the Oneida Baptist Institute in rural Kentucky—a place that turned out to be more of a reform school than a prestigious boarding academy.