By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Publication Date: 2025-12-23 16:51:00
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has gone from the bottom to becoming a multi-billionaire, but that doesn’t mean he’s above doing the little tasks.
The 62-year-old CEO of the world’s most valuable company said his humble roots as a dishwasher have, in fact, helped him learn to spurn no task.
“You can’t show me a task that is beneath me,” he said in an interview with Stanford’s graduate school of business, which recently resurfaced on X.
Even in his most humble of jobs, the world’s ninth-richest man never shied away from the dirty work.
“I cleaned a lot of toilets. I’ve cleaned more toilets than all of you combined, and some of them you just can’t unsee,” he said.
If someone approaches Huang with a call for help, he said he tries to at least contribute. That way, at least, the person with the problem can see a new way of thinking about the problem, he added.
“If you send me something and you want my input on it, and I can be of service to you, and in my review of it, share with you how I reason through it, I’ve made a contribution to you,” Huang said. “I’ve made it possible for you to see how I reason through something, and by reasoning, as you know, how someone reasons through something empowers you.”
These values have been fundamental to Huang’s leadership style and are partly why he is worth $161.8 billion, according to Forbes. Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to the U.S. at age 9 without his parents. As a teenager,…
