Due to Nvidia's performance exceeding expectations, CEO Jensen Huang has emerged because the twenty first richest person on this planet.

Bloomberg reported on the twenty second (local time) that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's net value within the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was $68.1 billion (roughly KRW 90.5 trillion), rising from twenty third the day prior to this to twenty first overall.

It’s because Nvidia's stock price soared greater than 15% on the Latest York stock market that day because of the announcement of earnings that exceeded expectations.

Nvidia's market capitalization increased by $272 billion (roughly KRW 361 trillion), the most important ever in at some point, and CEO Jensen Huang's asset value also increased by greater than $8 billion (KRW 10.6 trillion).

CEO Jensen Huang ranked only 128th with $13.5 billion (roughly 17.9 trillion won) in the beginning of last yr, but he rose rapidly as Nvidia's stock price soared greater than five times due to the substitute intelligence (AI) boom.

In consequence, he surpassed China's richest man, bottled water company founder Zhong Shanshan ($65 billion) and Charles Koch, CEO of U.S. energy company Koch Industries ($64.8 billion). It also closely followed the oil tycoon Julia Koch family ($69.1 billion), who ranked twentieth.

It’s about one-third of the assets of Tesla CEO Elon Musk ($210 billion), currently the world's richest man.

As well as, it was reported that the overall assets of 28 AI-related billionaires on the Bloomberg billionaire list increased by $35.7 billion (roughly 47.4 trillion won) on today.

Amongst them, Charles Liang, CEO of American server manufacturer Super Microcomputer, recorded the very best increase at 19%.

Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com