Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is now nearly as rich as longtime billionaire Warren Buffett — and could even soon surpass the Oracle of Omaha, in terms of net worth.
Huang, 63, has a $142 billion net worth — including a $27.6 billion increase since January 1 — according to a Bloomberg estimate on Wednesday evening. Much of his wealth comes from his roughly 3.5% stake in Nvidia, which is currently the world’s most valuable public company.
Nvidia’s market cap briefly passed $4 trillion on Wednesday, making it the first to ever reach that benchmark, and its stock is up roughly 22%, year-to-date. In the technology industry’s artificial intelligence arms race, Nvidia’s computer chips have become valuable components for multiple leading AI developers.
The company currently has a market cap of $4 trillion. Its market valuation could peak near $6 trillion, Loop Capital analyst Ananda Baruah said in a client note on Wednesday, according to Forbes.
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Buffett’s $144 billion estimated net worth has also grown since January 1 — by $2.19 billion, according to Bloomberg. His conglomerate holding company Berkshire Hathaway has performed well in 2025 — its stock is up approximately 5%, year-to-date — but given Nvidia’s growth rate, Huang could soon overtake Buffett on the list of world’s richest people.
Buffett, 94, has also given away some of his wealth. He recently donated $6 billion to five different charities, and has now given over $60 billion of his fortune away over the past two decades — a number that’s “substantially more than my entire net worth in 2006,” Buffett announced in a press release on June 27. (Buffett’s net worth that year was $46 billion, and he was the world’s second-wealthiest person, behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, according to Forbes.)
Of course, Huang’s net worth isn’t guaranteed to surpass Buffett’s. Despite Nvidia’s year-to-date stock growth, the business has experienced large market swings in both directions in 2025.
Nvidia’s shares dropped 17% in one day on January 27, after a report that Chinese AI lab DeepSeek used reduced-capacity chips from Nvidia to power its then-new language model, sparking panic in investors. It was the biggest single-day drop for a U.S. company in history, with Nvidia losing almost $600 billion in market cap, CNBC reported at the time.
The company’s stock then fell 9% in one day on March 3, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on Mexico, where the company hosts a portion of its manufacturing. But the company has been on a winning streak on Wall Street since June, perhaps a sign that investors’ concerns have quelled — at least, for now.
Huang co-founded Nvidia with fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem in 1993, when he was just 30 years old. None of them had never run a company before, which may have worked in their favor, Huang told the “Acquired” podcast, in an episode that aired on October 15, 2023.
“If we realized the pain and suffering, just how vulnerable you’re going to feel, and the challenges that you’re going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that go wrong, I don’t think anybody would start a company,” said Huang.
“I think that’s the superpower of an entrepreneur,” he added. “They don’t know how hard it is, and they only ask themselves, ‘How hard can it be?'”
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