In a companywide email, Huang said he owed an apology. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry”.
News soon broke that Huang was having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, Alice Huang, who worked for a Singaporean data centre company, according to US intelligence. Nvidia also separately announced it was launching a probe into whether Jensen was the target of foreign spying.
“To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust,” Jensen Huang continued in the letter, directly addressing his wife and family.
CNN reports on Jensen Huang and his extramarital affair partner Alice Huang…Note the language Financial Times uses: ‘romantic relationship’… https://t.co/M45Nt5Iabq
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Who is Jensen Huang’s wife Lori?
Jensen had previously called his wife the “number one person I met” during college and recalled her role in managing their domestic life, while he set out to establish the chip company.
Lori Huang met Jensen when the two studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University. The two were lab partners and graduated a year apart. Lori married Jensen in 1985, and the couple have two children.
Lori has expanded her role over the years through the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation. Lori is the president of the entity that supports higher education, public health and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiatives. The foundation also supports community organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Together, the couple made significant contributions to educational and research institutions.
In 2022, they donated $50 million to Oregon State University (OSU) to help establish a research and education complex focused on artificial intelligence, materials science and robotics. The facility was named the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex.
The two pledged $30 million to Stanford, helping set up its engineering centre that opened in 2010.
Jensen described his first meeting and relationship with his wife when he visited his alma mater OSU and in subsequent media interactions.
How did Jensen Huang meet Lori?
Jensen joined OSU when he was all of 16. The next year, he met his future wife, who was then 19 years old. “There were 250 students and three girls…I was the only student that looked like a child, and they were all children,” he told students during a visit to OSU in 2013, according to a transcript of his address available on the university website.
“For me, the number one person I met here was, undoubtedly, Lori,” he said. “Which was serendipity, of course.”
She was also his freshman-year lab partner in electrical engineering fundamentals; they married five years later.
Jensen Huang promised Lori Huang he would be CEO by 30
Huang decided to make the most of his youthful looks coupled with his presence in an advanced class.
“So I walked up to her and I said, ‘Do you wanna see my homework?’” he recalled, according to a Fortune report.
He promised Lori: Do homework together every Sunday, and she would get straight A’s. Jensen would do his own homework before their scheduled meeting so he knew all the answers. He would then make Lori study all day so their Sunday “date” lasted long.
At 20, Huang made another promise to Lori: He will be a CEO by the time he turned 30.
“I had no idea what I was talking about,” he said. “And then we got married. That’s all the advice I’m going to give all the entrepreneurs.”
When he cofounded Nvidia in 1993 and became CEO, he was indeed 30.
What has Jensen Huang said about his wife’s sacrifices?
Jensen has previously noted how building a company meant time away from his family.
“During the time when the kids were still young, I was finishing my master’s at Stanford and so I was busy on multiple levels. And yeah, I missed all their karate tournaments. I missed a lot. I missed a lot,” he said during the podcast How I Built This with Guy Raz.
His wife was the one who took care of everything, Jensen said. “I don’t know that I’ve ever asked them what it was like on the receiving side of it, but if you’re going to build a company, you need somebody strong and you need somebody amazing like my wife. And she took care of everything,”.
“Lori took care of everything. And I don’t remember complaining even one time, one nanosecond or even one instance. That’s the gift that she gave me,” he added.
